Ecology

• ecological organization: interactions and interrelationships of living and nonliving things
• population: all the members of species living in a given area
• niche: role or impact an organism has on the environment
• community: all the plant and animal populations of a given area
• ecosystem: a self-contained, interdependent system of living and non-living things
• biosphere: portion of the earth in which life exists

  • water, land, air
• ecology: the study of the interactions of plants and animals and their interrelationships with the physical environment.
• individual: one organism of a given species
• species: organisms of the same kind that can mate and reproduce fertile offspring
• biome: large geographic area
• abiotic factors (non-living factors): moisture, temperature, nutrients in soil, gases
• biotic factors: living parts of the ecosystem