Ecology & Biome Vocabulary Word Definition Examples Organism Any living thing Abiotic Not living rocks, water, sun Create a table in your lab notebook with these headings. You will use the front and back of a page. There are vocabulary words underlined , the definition column should be the largest. You may choose to draw a picture or list examples .
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Ecology & Biome Vocabulary
Word Definition Examples
Organism Any living thing
Abiotic Not living rocks,
water, sun
Create a table in your lab notebook with these headings. You
will use the front and back of a page. There are vocabulary
words underlined, the definition column should be the largest.
You may choose to draw a picture or list examples.
Biosphere
Ecosystem
Community
Population
Organism
Levels of Ecological Organization
- way of grouping like things ecologically
Biosphere
Parts of the Earth needed to support life,
top portion of Earth’s crust, all waters on
Earth and the surrounding atmosphere
BiomeLarge area of land that has similar weather and
organisms: examples include desert, tropical
rainforest, freshwater, saltwater and grassland
Ecosystem
Consists of all the living and nonliving factors of the environment.
Abiotic
nonliving things in an environment (Never living); soil, water, temperature, wind.
Air
Biotic
living or once living (dead) things in an environment; plants and animals.
CommunityAll the populations in an ecosystem
(includes different species).
Ex. All the seals, sharks, whales, and seaweed by a corral reef