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An environmental factor that is not associated with the activities of living organisms.
green anole
lizard
abiotic factor
biotic factor
The number and variety of organisms in a given area during a specific period of times.
predator
biodiversity
evidence
diet
An environmental factor that is associated with or results from the activities of living organisms.
abiotic
biotic factor
biology
commensalism
The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food.
cellular respiration
changes
parastism
prediction
The process by which one or more substances change to produce one or more different substances.
chemical reaction
potions
population
parastitism
All of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.
village
rural
town
community
Ecological relationship in which two or more organisms depend on the same limited resource.
commensalism
parasitism
competition
mutualism
An organism that eats other organisms or organic matter.
consumer
rock
producer
plant
An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients.
producer
predator
decomposer
In ecology, an event that changes a community by removing or destroying organisms or by altering resource availability.
misunderstanding
decompose
disturbance
A community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment.
ecosystem
farm
village
A benefit that humans obtain from ecosystems.
prediction
action
ecosystem service
The ability to cause change.
wishing
enchanted spell
energy
A triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem's loss of energy, which results as energy passes through the ecosystem's food chain.
energy square
energy circle
energy pyramid
A diagram that shows the feeding relationship between organisms in an ecosystem
food web
menu
foot web
The ruin or alteration of a place inhabited by an ecological community
habitat destruction
earthquake
hurricane
