Vocabulary
9CIE - Ecology
Finn Le Sueur
2024
- Abiotic Factors: Non-living
components of environment.
- Adaptation: A trait that helps an
organism survive and reproduce
- Behavioural Adaptation: What an
organism does to survive in the unique conditions of its
environment
- Biotic Factors: All the living
organisms that inhabit an environment
- Carbon Cycle: The movement of
carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back
- Carnivore: An organism that
obtains energy by eating animals
- Community: A group of
interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with
each other
- Consumer: An organism that obtains
energy by feeding on other organisms
- Food Chain: A series of steps in
an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being
eaten
- Food Web: A community of organisms
where there are several interrelated food chains
- Habitat: Place where an organism
lives
- Herbicide: A substance used to
kill plants, especially weeds
- Herbivore: An organism that
obtains energy by eating only plants
- Niche: An organism’s particular
role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living.
- Omnivore: An organism that obtains
energy by eating both plants and animals
- Organism: A living thing
- Parasite: An organism that feeds
on a living host
- Physiological Adaptation: A
physical or chemical event that occurs within the body of an organism
and enables survival
- Predator: An animal that hunts
other animals for food
- Prey: An organism that is killed
and eaten by another organism
- Producer: An organism that can
make its own food (typically from sunlight).
- Reproduction: The process of
producing offspring
- Structural Adaptation: A physical
feature of an organism’s body having a specific function that
contributes to the survival of the organism
- Temperature: A measure of how hot
or cold something is.
- Trophic Level: Each step in a food
chain or food web