WorksheetsECOLOGY VOCABULARY
Total questions: 30
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Anything that prevents a population from growing
Carrying Capacity
Limiting Factor
Ecology
Immigration
Any naturally-occurring event that has an effect on an ecosystem
Natural hazard
Carrying Capacity
Limiting factor
Emigration
Individual ecosystems grouped together by climate, vegetation, the types of living organisms found in a particular environment
Biome
Population
Community
Ecosystem
Show the position an organism has in a food chain
Trophic Levels
Food Chain
Food Web
Animal Pyramid
The temperature and amount of rainfall in an environment
Ecosystem
Biome
Climate
Weather
Living things in an environment such as insects, birds, or bacteria
Abiotic
Biotic
Population
Habitat
All of the members of the same species in a certain area/region at a certain time
Ecosystem
Population
Community
Habitat
The natural home or environment of an organism
Community
Population
Ecosystem
Habitat
Non-living things in the environment
Biotic
Abiotic
Animals
Habitat
Picture/graph that shows a series of organisms dependent on each other
Energy Pyramid
Food Chain
Food Web
Ecosystem
The max number of organisms that can be survive in an ecosystem
Limiting Factor
Carrying Capacity
Natural Hazard
One Million
The number of organisms in a certain area
One Million
Carrying Capacity
Population
Picture/graph that shows the flow of energy through an ecosystem
Energy Web
Food Web
Energy Pyramid
Food Pyramid
All the abiotic factors (including light, temperature, water, & soil) + all the different communities in an area.
Biome
Ecosystem
Population
Community
An organism’s role in an ecosystem
Niche
Prey
Predator
Decomposer
Made up of more than one, interconnecting food chains
Food Chains
Food Pyramid
Energy Pyramid
Food Web
When a population declines by members leaving a population
Immigration
Death Rate
Emigration
Birth Rate
All of the different populations in certain area/region at a certain time
Population
Community
Biome
Environment
An individual living organism
Population
Community
Species
Biome
When a population grows by new members joining a population
Birth rate
Immigration
Emigration
Death Rate
Level 1 Consumer
Animal that eats other animals
Animal that eatrs producers
Animal at the top of the food chain
Plant
Organism that eats both plants and animals
Herbivore
Carnivore
Omnivore
Vegetarian
A producer
Eats dead organisms
Eats animals
is a plant eater
Makes its own food using the enrgy from the Sun
Which of these is an example of an ecosystem
tundra
taiga
flock of geese
coral reef
What are the living components of an ecosystem?
Abiotic Factors
Food webs
Food chains
Biotic Factors
If a drought occurs in an ecosystem an the population of geese stops growing, what is this called?
Carrying Capacity
Limiting Factor
Tragic
Ecological malady
Which of these would be considered a decomposer?
lions
snake
mushroom
grass
An animal that eats an animal that eats plants is_______
a primary consumer
a level 2 consumer
a decomposer
a herbivore
Which of these is an interaction within a population?
A fox eating a rabbit
A flock of geese migrating
A tick feeds on a deer
A dog chasing a cat
Which of these is an example of a biome?
pond
forest
ocean
lake
