How The Environment is Organized Vocabulary
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Ecosystem
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment
Population
A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
Species
A group of organisms that are closely related and can mate to produce fertile offspring
System
A group of parts that work together as a whole
Organism
A living thing
community
All the different populations that live together in an area
Biotic
Describes living factors (things) in the environment.
Abiotic
Non-living things
Ecology
Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
Biotic
can be once living
Eco
house, environment, home (ecology)
prefix- A means
not
-ology
study of
-otic
stuff
habitat
the place within an ecosystem where an organism lives
