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Science Vocabulary
Words for "Interactions of Living Things"
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The scientific study of the relationships that living organisms have with each other | Ecology |
| Two or more species in a certain area | Community |
| Group of living and non-living things | Ecosystem |
| Living part of the world(Earth) | Biosphere |
| The sequence of who eats who | Food Chain |
| Depicts feeding connections in an ecological community | Food Web |
| A depiction of the amount of energy in each trophic level of an ecosystem | Energy Pyramid |
| The entirety of environmental factors that tend to suit and allow an animal or plant species to survive | Niche |
| Maximum number of a certain species that can thrive in an area | Carrying Capacity |
| Long-term interaction between two or more different species | Symbiosis |
| A relationship between two or more species that benefits all of them | Mutualism |
| Relationship between two species where one lives in, on, or with where neither get damaged | Commensalism |
| The relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it | Parasitism |
| An environmental factor that tends to limit population size | Limiting Factor |