Ecology Terms

2. A type of biological interaction where both organism are helped and neither are harmed
3. The environment an organism usually occurs in and the community that form around it
7. An organism that breaks down organic material
9. A type of biological interaction where one organism is helped and the other is neither harmed nor helped
12. Organism that gets its Food/Energy from other organism
13. Living factor
15. Nonliving factor in the environment
18. The amount of a specific species
19. The collection of Biotic and Abiotic factors in an area
20. A group of organism populations that reside in the same habitat

1. Organism that creates its own Food/Energy
4. The total collection of Biotic factors that define a specific region of Earth
5. A type of biological interaction where one organism harms another to benefit itself
6. When two or more organisms compete for resources or to fill the same biological niche
8. The study of organisms and their interactions with their enviornment
10. The role an organism fills in its environment
11. When an organism develops a trait that increases its biological fitness
14. The varieties of life on the Earth
16. The total sum of all life on Earth
17. A group of organisms that can reproduce together