Ecology

4. an area where an organism lives.
5. a large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities.
6. a group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.
7. one organism benefits at the expense of the other
9. the portion of the Earth that supports life.
13. are the nonliving factors in an organism’s environment
14. a biological community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it.
15. the act of one organism pursuing and consuming another organism for food.
16. the scientific discipline in which the relationships among living organisms and the interaction the organisms have with their environments are studied.

1. both organisms benefit
2. any Abiotic or Biotic factor that restricts the numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms.
3. The ability of any organism to survive when subjected to biotic and abiotic factors
6. are living factors in an organism’s environment.
8. is the close relationship that exists when two or more species live together.
10. one organism benefits; the other is neither helped nor harmed
11. is the role or position that an organism has in its environment.
12. Organisms of a single species that share the same geographic location at the time make up