Ecology
Vocabulary
Name:
Core:
Use the vocabulary below to create a good way for you study them throughout this unit.
You can:
♦ Make flashcards
♦ Create a foldable
♦ Create a memory game with words on one side and definitions and pictures on the other side
♦ Make puzzle pieces where the correct word only matches the correct definition
Vocabulary Word
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Individual
Habitat
Niche
Ecology
Food Chain
Food Web
Producer (also called autotroph)
Consumer (also called heterotroph)
Carnivore
Herbivore
Omnivore
Predator
Prey
Scavenger
Decomposer
Symbiosis
3 Types of Symbiosis:
1. Commensalism
2. Mutualism
3. Parasitism
Biotic factor
Abiotic factor
Environment
Definition
All the biotic and abiotic factors in a given area
interacting with each other
Group of populations of different species living in the
same area, interacting
Group of organism of the same species living together in
the same area
One organism of one species
Place in which an organism lives
An organism’s role in life
The study of the relationships and interactions of living
things with their environment
An arrangement of the organisms in a community
according to the order of predation
Interacting food chains in an ecological community
Organism that makes it own food (example: green
plants)
Organisms that cannot make its own food
Organism that eats only meat
Organism that eats only plants
Organism that eats both plants and meat
Organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms
Organism hunted by the predator
Organism that hunts and feeds on dead animals
Organism that breaks down dead organisms into simpler
substances
A close relationship between 2 organisms in which 1 of
the organisms lives near, on or even inside another
organism and at least one of the organism’s benefit
One organism benefits and the other is not harmed
Both organisms benefit
One organism benefits and the other is harmed
Any living thing
Any non-living thing
Everything that surrounds a living thing including biotic
and abiotic factors