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WorksheetsEcology: Section 1 Vocab
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
The scientific discipline in which the relationships among living organisms and the interaction have with their environments.
Ecology
Chemistry
Physics
Physical Science
Biosphere
The portion of Earth that supports life.
The entire solar system
The earth and the moon
The areas of the Earth under water
The living factors in an organism’s environment.
air
biotic
abiotic
life
Abiotic Factor
The living factors in an organism’s environment.
The factors in an organisms environment that it can control
Only the factors built by humans in an organisms environment
The nonliving factors in an organism’s environment.
Individual organisms of the same species that share the same geographic location at the same time.
Biome
Population
Habitat
Niche
Biological
community
A group of individuals that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.
A group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.
All the abiotic factors in a pond
Is a biological community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it.
population
Neighborhood
Ecosystem
niche
A large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and similar types of communities.
Earth
Biome
Biosphere
nice
Habitat
The role or position that an organism has in its environment.
When more than one organism uses a resource at the same time.
An area where an organism lives
Individual organisms of the same species that share the same geographic location at the same time.
The act of one organism pursuing and consuming another organism.
predation
lunch
food web
parasite
Symbiosis
The relationship between two or more organism that live closely together and benefit from each other.
The close relationship that exists when two or more or more species live together.
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed.
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
The relationship between two or more organism that live closely together and benefit from each other.
mutualism
symbiosis
Commensalism
Parasitism
Commensalism
A relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
The relationship between two or more organism that live closely together and benefit from each other.
The act of one organism pursuing and consuming another organism.
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
symbiosis
Mutualism
Parasitism
Commensalism
Explain the difference between abiotic and biotic factors in the ecosystem. Provide one example of each.
