Ecology Unit
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| nonliving, physical features of the environment, including air, water, sunlight, soil, temperature, and climate | ||
| any living or previously living component of an environment | ||
| group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities | ||
| organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds; also called a producer | ||
| portion of earth that supports life | ||
| a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce | ||
| the total mass of living matter in a given unit area | ||
| Meat eater | ||
| a stable, mature community that undergoes little or no change in species over time | ||
| the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources | ||
| (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other | ||
| a symbiotic relationship in which one member is benefited and the second is neither harmed nor benefited | ||
| Organisms that break down the dead remains of other organisms | ||
| a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment, a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment | ||
| The interactions and relationships between organisms and their environment., The series of predictable changes that occurs in a community over time | ||
| scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment | ||
| way of showing how energy moves through a food chain | ||
| pathway of food transfer from one trophic level to another | ||
| links all the food chains in an ecosystem together | ||
| Place where an Organism lives and has the component necessary for its survival (food, water, shelter, space) | ||
| an organism that cannot make its own food | ||
| eats only plants | ||
| ability of a living thing to keep conditions inside its body constant | ||
| anything that restricts the number of individuals in a population | ||
| that which has mass and occupies space | ||
| organism's role, or job, in its habitat | ||
| the circulation and reutilization of nitrogen in both inorganic and organic phases | ||
| chemical that an organism needs to live | ||
| an animal that eats both plants and animals | ||
| orderly structure of cells in an organism | ||
| a close relationship; one species benefits, the other is harmed | ||
| a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area | ||
| the colonization of new sites like these by communities of organisms | ||
| the act of killing and eating another organism | ||
| the process of generating offspring | ||
| Reaction to a change | ||
| a signal to which an organism responds | ||
| group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring | ||
| relationship in which two species live closely together, the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent | ||
| organism's capacity to grow or thrive when subjected to an unfavorable environmental factor | ||
| step in a food chain or food web | ||
| recur in repeating sequences | ||
| a biogeochemical cycle which exchanges CO2, O2, and glucose through the processes of photosynthesis and respiration. | ||
| the continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the air, changing from liquid to gas to liquid (condensation, precipitation, evaporation | ||
| a relationship between two species in which both species benefit | ||
| the total mass of living matter in a given unit area | ||
| any animal that lives by preying on other animals | ||
| animal hunted or caught for food | ||
| a species that influences the survival of many other species in an ecosystem | ||
| process by which pollutants become more concentrated in successive trophic levels of a food web | ||
| rapid growth of algae in bodies of water, due to high levels of nitrogen and often phosphate | ||
| (alien species, non-native species), species moved by humans to new geographic areas, either intentionally or accidentally | ||
| the series of changes that occur after a disturbance of an existing ecosystem | ||
| native to or confined to a certain region | ||
| strives to enable people to use natural resources in ways that will benefit them and maintain the ecosystem | ||
| the use of living organisms to detoxify and restore polluted and degraded ecosystems |