Ecology Terms

2. Biological community of interacting organisms and their environment
6. Long term weather pattern for a specific area
10. The process by which some substances increase in concentration in an ecosystem
11. An organism that is capable of making energy from abiotic factors in the environment
12. Simple, direct chain of order that shows the producer and consumer relationship between organisms
14. Competition for resources between organisms of the same species
15. Non Living thing that plays a role in an ecosystem
16. Physical environment where a species lives
17. Organisms that must consume other organisms in order to get energy and nutrients to survive
18. Process in which certain traits become more or less common through generations
20. A group of two or more populations of organisms from different species inhabiting the same location at the same time

1. A group of organisms of the same species living in the same area
3. Branch of Biology that studies relationships between organisms and nonliving things in an ecosystem
4. Complex illustration of interactions between producers and consumers from multiple food chains
5. An organism that gains energy from dead or decaying organisms
7. Variety of living organisms in an ecosystem that enriches life for all species
8. Competition for resources between organisms of different species
9. The maximum number of individuals in a single population that a given environment can sustain at a given time
13. Living organism that plays a role in an ecosystem
19. An organisms role in its environment