18 Ecology Vocabulary Terms

What is the term for any living thing?

(a)  

• Species

• Habitat

• Organism
• Biome

I am a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding?

• Population

• Species

• Community

• Ecosystem

What do you call all the organisms of the same species living in an area?

(a)  

• Community

• Population
• Ecosystem

• Biome

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What is a community and its abiotic environment called?

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Population

• Habitat

What is a complex ecological community that extends over a large geographic area called?

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Community

• Population

What are the living components of an ecosystem known as?

• Abiotic factors

• Biotic factors

• Trophic levels

• Niches

I'm a consumer that eats only plants. What am I?

(a)  

What are the nonliving parts of an ecosystem called?

(a)  

• Biotic factors

• Abiotic factors
• Niches

• Habitats

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What is the term for an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food?

• Predator

• Prey

• Symbiosis

• Biodiversity

Which relationship benefits both species involved?​ ​ ​ (a)  

• parasitism
• commensalism
• competition
• mutualism