Ecology Vocab

2. All physical, nonliving components of the environment, such as water, temperature, and sunlight.
5. Diagram to model what each organism within an ecosystem eats.
6. Species that exist outside of the species’ normal range of human activity.
7. A marked off square or rectangular plot of land, to determine where to collect their samples.
9. The location in an environment where an organism lives.

1. An introduced species that becomes successful in its new environment and causes or may cause problems there.
3. The variety of life at every level, from genes to species to ecosystems.
4. The living organisms in an environment.
8. A specific path or area, often marked with a rope or measuring tape.