Ecosystem
All the living and
nonliving things in an
area
Biotic Factors
Living parts of an
ecosystem
Populations
Abiotic Factors
Nonliving parts of an
ecosystem
Communities
All the populations living
in an area
Habitat
All the organisms of a
Place where an organism
species living in the same lives
area
Niche
Role of an organism in
the community
Deserts
A dry sandy region with
little rain
Tundra
A treeless area that has
permanent frozen soil
Prairie
Flat or rolling area that is
treeless
Rainforest
A dense evergreen forest
with a lot of rainfall
Consumers
Animals that need to eat
to survive
Organisms
Producers
Produces food for others
Decomposers
Organism that breaks
down the dead
Food Chain
An individual form of life Is the path energy takes
from producers to
consumers to
decomposers
Food Web
Shows the relationship
between al of the species
in a community
Light
Makes things visible
Energy
Captured from sunlight.
We get it from food
Soil Composition
Different minerals that
make up soil
Temperature
The degree of hotness or
coldness
Carnivore
Animals that eat other
animals
Predator
Living things that hunt
other living things for
food
Scavenger
Feed on the remains of
dead animals
Mutualism
Herbivore
Eat producers (plants)
Omnivore
Eats both animals and
plants
Prey
The ones that are hunted
Symbiosis
Relationship between two
kinds of organisms that
lasts over a period of time
Parasitism
Relationship between two Relationship in which one
kinds of organisms that
kind of organism lives on
benefits both of them
or in another organism
and may harm the
organism
Commensalisms
Pollution
Relationship in which one Contamination of air,
organism benefits from
water, or soil
another without harming
or helping
Extinction
The species has died out
completely
Endangered
Species
A species is in danger of
becoming extinct
Pesticides
A chemical to kill pests
Recycling
Erosion
Using reused things to
help stop the loss of
topsoil
Acid Rain
Rain that contains high
levels of acid chemicals
Threatened
Species
Species may become
endangered
Urban Growth
The population per square
mile (city)
Mining
Extraction of valuable
minerals from the Earth
Hunting
Pursuit and killing of a
wild animal
Renewable
Resources
it is naturally reproduced
Non-renewable
Resources
Cannot be naturally
reproduced