Resources in Ecosystems: Vocabulary

Word Definition Image

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

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

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
 a relationship in which
parasitism 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

a limitation on an
constraint engineering solution

the predictable way that

ecological ecosystems change
succession from one type to
another over time

any system that is

dynamic characterized by
system constant change
 information obtained by
evidence observation or
experimentation