Term | Definition |
Abiotic | Non-Living |
Biotic | Living |
Habitat | The place where an organism lives in order to obtain its food,
water, shelter and other things needed for survival |
Biome | Individual Ecosystems |
Niche | The particular role of an organism in its environment including
type of food it eats, how it obtains its food and how it interacts
with other organisms |
Immigration | Add members to a population in an ecosystems (Not by birth) |
Emmigration | When an organisms leaves its ecosystems |
Limiting Factors | Controls the size of population |
Community | All the different populations in a specific area or region at a certain time |
Population | All of the individuals of a given species in a specific area or region at a certain time |
Ecosystem | One or more communities in an area and the
abiotic factors |
Producer | Produces energy |
Consumer | Eat the producer such as herbivores, carnivore, and omnivores |
Herbivore | Animals that eat plants |
Carnivore | Animals that eat meat |
Omnivore | Animals that eat both plants and meat |
Scavenger | An animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse |
Carrying Capacity | The
maximum number of organisms
that can survive in a particular
ecosystem |
Predator | An animal that naturally preys on others |
Prey | An animal hunted and killed by another for food |
Renewable Resource | Resources that can be replaced and reused by nature |
Nonrenewable Resource | Natural resources that cannot be replaced
by nature |
Soil | one of the most valuable abiotic factors in an ecosystem because everything that lives on land depends directly or indirectly on soil |
Groundwater | Water that soaks into the ground |
Permeable | Soil and rock that allow the water to pass
through |
Impermable | Soil and rock that don't allow the water to pass through |
Aquifer | Groundwater can also flow slowly through
the underground rock or be stored in
underground layers |
Zone of Saturation | The area where the water has filled all the
space in the soil |
Divide | The high ground between two drainage basins |
Drainage Basin | An area that is drained by a river and all
the streams that empty into it, the
tributaries |
Watershed | Drainage Basin |