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 thing

organism
 any material or energy
resource
needed by living things

to survive, grow, and

reproduce

a group of individuals of
population
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
ecosystem
of living 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

The parts of earth which

Biosphere organisms are able to live

an organism that eats

omnivore both plants and animals
in similar amounts

an organism that mainly

herbivore 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
mutualism
a relationship between

two species in which

both species benefit

parasitism a relationship in which

one species benefits
while the other is
harmed but not usually
killed

a relationship between
commensalis
two species in which
m
one species benefits

and the other is

unaffected