Ecology Vocab Review

physical, or nonliving, factors that shape an ecosystem.

• abiotic factors

• biotic factors

• living organisms

• ecosystem drivers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere

• biodiversity

• ecosystem

• flora and fauna

• genetics

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web

• biological magnification

• bioaccumulation

• trophic transfer

• ecological succession

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NGSS.HS-LS4-5

any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact

• biotic factors

• abiotic factors

• physical factors

• organismic elements

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

largest number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support

• carrying capacity

• population size

• environmental limit

• ecological threshold

symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

• commensalism

• mutualism

• parasitism

• competition

interaction between organisms or species in which both the organisms or species are harmed from trying to use the same resources

• competition

• mutualism

• predation

• parasitism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

organism that relies on other organisms for its energy and food supply; heterotroph

• consumer

• producer

• autotroph

• decomposer

organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter

• decomposer

• autotroph

• parasite

• herbivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship

• mutualism

• parasitism

• commensalism

• predation