Ecology Final Vocabulary

1. Joining a population
3. The growth of urban areas caused by people moving into cities.
4. The removal of trees and other vegetation from an area.
5. An environmental factor that prevents an organism or population from reaching its full potential of size or activity.
8. Pollution that comes from many sources rather than from a single specific site; an example is pollution that reaches a body of water from streets and storm sewers.
12. The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another.
14. An environmental factor that is associated with or results from the activities of living organisms.
15. Leaving a population

2. A natural resource that humans use to make objects or to consume as food and drink.
4. An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients.
6. A diagram used to show the flow of energy through an ecosystem.
7. A relationship between two species in which both species benefit.
9. Pollution that comes from a specific site.
10. A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring.
11. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
13. A diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
16. An environmental factor that is not associated with the activities of living organisms.