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Ecology
7th Grade Science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Factors in an environment that are non-living. | abiotic |
| Organisms in an environment that are living or were once living. | biotic |
| Organisms that cannot make their own food. | consumers |
| Organisms that can make their own food using the Sun's energy through photosynthesis. | producers |
| A series of overlapping food chains that exist in an ecosystem. | food web |
| The study of interactions among organisms and their environment. | ecology |
| A large region with plants and animals that are adapted to the soil and climate of that region. | biome |
| A way of showing how energy in the form of food passes from one organism to another. | food chain |
| Any close interaction between two or more species. | symbiosis |
| The part of the Earth that supports life. | biosphere |
| This is made up of a biotic community and the abiotic factors that affect it | ecosystem |
| Groups of populations that interact with each other in a given area form this. | community |
| All the members of one species that live together at the same time and in the same area. | population |
| The role, or job, of an organism in the ecosystem. | niche |
| The place where an organism lives. | habitat |