Resources in Ecosystems: Vocabulary

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the parts of Earth in which

biosphere organisms are able to live

a group of living things that

species share traits and can breed
successfully with each other,
but not with other groups

an individual living thing

organism

any material or energy

resource needed by living things to
survive, grow, and reproduce
 a group of individuals of a
population species that lives and
reproduces in the same area

competition
an interaction between living
things that need the same
limited resource

a group of populations of
ecosystem living things and the nonliving
parts of their environment that
support them

a large area of Earth

biome characterized by certain
physical conditions and the
living things that are found
there
 an organism that eats both
omnivore plants and animals in similar
amounts

an organism that mainly eats

herbivore plants or plant parts

an organism that mainly eats

carnivore animals

a relationship in which one

predation organism, the predator,
benefits by eating another
organism, the prey

a limitation on an engineering
constraint solution

the requirements that must be

criteria met for an engineering
solution to be successful
 a relationship between two
mutualism species in which both species
benefit

a relationship in which one

parasitism species benefits while the
other is harmed but not
usually killed

a relationship between two

commensalis species in which one species
m benefits and the other is
unaffected

ecological
the predictable way that
succession ecosystems change from one
type to another over time

dynamic
any system that is
system characterized by constant
change

information obtained by
evidence observation or
experimentation