Ecosystem: Essential Vocabulary

The process in which oxygen and glucose undergo a complex series of chemical reactions inside cells, releasing energy

• Cellular Respiration

• Photosynthesis

• Fermentation

• Metabolism

The change in state from a gas to a liquid

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Sublimation

• Freezing

The process by which plants and other autotrophs capture and use light energy to make food from carbon dioxide and water

• Photosynthesis

• Respiration

• Transpiration

• Fermentation

The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving environment

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Habitat

• Population

A type of symbiosis in which one organism lives with, on, or in a host and harms it

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Predation

The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen that plants and animals can use

• Nitrogen Fixation

• Nitrogen Denitrification

• Nitrogen Assimilation

• Nitrogen Mineralization

A type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from living together

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Parasitism

• Competition

All the members of one species living in the same area

• Community

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Habitat

An interaction in which one organism kills another for food or nutrients

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Parasitism

The process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce

• Natural Selection

• Artificial Selection

• Genetic Drift

• Evolutionary Adaptation