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