Ecology Vocabulary

2. a group of individuals of the same species that live together in the same area at the same time
4. symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected
5. symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is harmed
6. living factors in the environment
10. the study of interactions between organisms and their environment
11. the organism that is hunted by a predator
13. a consumer that eats plants
14. the part of Earth where life exists
15. the number of organisms an ecosystem can support
16. the organism that eats prey
17. several populations living in the same area
18. diagram that represents how energy in food flows from one organism to the next

1. nonliving factors in the environment
3. consumer that eats both plants and animals
4. a consumer that eats only animals
7. a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
8. two organisms that have close interactions that either help both, harm one, or help one at no expense to the other
9. triangle-shaped diagram that shows the loss of energy at each level of a food chain
10. a community of organisms and their nonliving environment
12. diagram that represents the many energy pathways in a real ecosystem