Science Vocabulary

4. All them members of ONE SPECIES living in the same area
6. The behaviors and physical characteristics that allow organisms to successfully live in their environment
9. Environmental factors that set a LIMIT or BOUNDARY on where an organism can live. They can cause a population to DECREASE or STOP GROWING
10. an organism's surroundings including biotic and abiotic factors
11. a group of SIMILAR ORGANISMS that can mate with each other and reproduce offspring that can also mate & reproduce
13. How many organisms an area can support based on the limiting factors
14. ALL the different types of living species that live together in an area

1. the living or once living parts of organism's habitat (alive now, or was once alive)
2. A organism’s role in an ecosystem
3. an environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to REPRODUCE, LIVE, & GROW
5. The process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment are most likely to survive and reproduce
7. all the nonliving parts of an organism's habitat (not living, was never living, will never be living)
8. the study of HOW organisms interact with each other and their nonliving environment
12. any living thing