Ecology vocab

composed of all the physical, chemical, and biological factors that a species needs to survive, stay healthy, and reproduce

combined biotic and abiotic factors found in the area where an organism lives

an interspecies interaction in which both organisms benefit from one another

ecological relationship in which one organism benefits by harming another organism

ecological relationship in which one species receives a benefit but the other but the other species is not affected one way or another

organism that obtains its energy by eating both plants and animals

detritivore that breaks down organic matter into simpler compounds, returning nutrients back into an ecosystem

carnivores that eat herbivores

herbivores bc they are the first consumer above the producer trohpic level

organism that obtains its energy and nutrients by eating other organisms

organism that obtains energy by eating only animals

organism that obtains its energy from abiotic sources, such as sunlight or inorganic chemicals

organism that obtains energy by eating only plants

nonliving factor in an ecosystem, such as moisture, temp, wind

living things such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria, sunlight, soil, and minerals

model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships within an ecosystem

collection of organisms and nonliving things, such as climate, soil, water, rocks, in an area