Ecosystems

  1. A non-living condition or thing, as a climate or habitat, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it.
    Abiotic Factors
  2. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
    Biodiversity
  3. A living thing, as an animal or plant, that influences or affects and ecosystem.
    Biotic Factors
  4. The maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, give the food, habitat, water and other resources available.
    Carrying Capacity
  5. The struggling among organisms, both of the same and of different species, for food, space, and other virtual requirements
    Competition
  6. The variety of ways that species interact with each other and the environment.
    Ecological Biodiversity
  7. The relations of organisms to one another and their physical surroundings.
    Ecosystem
  8. The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal and other plants lives operates.
    Environment
  9. The variety of genetic characteristics involved in the genetic makeup of a species, it is the diversity within the species which acts as the major reason for the distinguishing characteristics expressed by each individual.
    Genetic Biodiversity
  10. Anything that constrains a population size and slows or stops it from growing.
    Limiting Factor
  11. An individual animal, plant, or single cell life form.
    Organism
  12. All the individuals of one species in a given area.
    Population
  13. A class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities.
    Species
  14. The number of species and abundance of each species that live in a particular location.
    Species Diversity
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Ecosystems
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Ecosystems vocabulary
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