Resources in Ecosystems: Vocabulary

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the parts of Earth in

biosphere which organisms are
able to live

a group of living things

species that share traits and
can breed
successfully with each
other, but not with
other groups

an individual living
organism thing

any material or energy

resource needed by living
things to survive,
grow, and reproduce
 a group of individuals
population of a species that lives
and reproduces in the
same area

an interaction between
competition living things that need
the same limited
resource

a group of populations of living

ecosystem things and the nonliving parts of
their environment that​ ​support
them

a large area of Earth

biome characterized by
certain physical
conditions and the
living things that are
found there

an organism that eats

omnivore both plants and
animals in similar
amounts
 an organism that
herbivore mainly eats plants or
plant parts

an organism that mainly

carnivore eats animals

a relationship in which
predation one organism, the
predator, benefits by
eating another
organism, the prey

A limitation on an
constraint engineering solution

the requirements that

criteria must be met for an
engineering solution to
be successful
 a relationship between
mutualism two species in which
both species benefit

relationship in which
parasitism one species benefits
while the other is
harmed but not
usually killed

a relationship between
commensalism two species in which
one species benefits
and the other is
unaffected

information obtained
evidence by observation or
experimentation

any system that is

dynamic characterized by
system constant change
 the predictable way
ecological that ecosystems
succession change from one type
to another over time