Ecology Vocabulary

2. the growth of bacterial cells increases by a multiplicative factor per unit of time
4. the concentration of individuals within a species in a specific geographic locale
9. when a populations per capita growth rate decreases as population size approaches a maximum imposed carrying capacity
11. the variety of all living things and their interactions
12. a geographic area where plants animals and other organisms and also weather and landscapes form a bubble of life
14. the competition between individuals of the same species
15. a living organism that shapes its environment
17. when a climax community or intermediate community is impacted by a disturbance
18. the competition between individuals or different species
19. when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time
21. a roll an organism plays in a community

1. an interacting group of various species in a common location
3. a large environment generally characterized by various abiotic factors
5. the species that first colonize new habitats created by disturbance
6. a group of organisms of one species that live in the same place at the same time
7. the process of accumulation of certain chemicals in living organisms
8. a non living part of the ecosystem that shapes the environment
10. an organism that helps define an entire ecosystem
13. the scattering of organisms over periods within a given area or over the earth
16. anything that contains a populations size and slows or stops it from growing
20. graphs that show a proportion of the population that survives from one age to the next