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Bio Unit 3
Biodiversity Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Biotic | Living component of the environment |
| Abiotic | Non-living component of the environment |
| Community | All the organisms of all the species found in the same habitat at the same time |
| Consumer | A Heterotrophic organism |
| Ecosystem | Interaction between all the living organisms and all the non-living components in the same area |
| Environment | All the non-living and living components |
| Habitat | Place where the organism, community and population lives |
| Niche | An organism's role in the environment |
| Population | Community that can interbreed |
| Producer | Autotrophic organism |
| Species | a group of organisms of the same evolutionary origin that can interbreed with each other and produce fertile offspring |
| Biodiversity | All the species on the planet, all the ecosystems they inhabit and all their genes |