1. Ecology Notes

2. organism A complete living thing

3. species Similar organisms that live in the same environment that can product fertile offspring

4. populations A group of the same species living in the same area – a population of bears or robins

5. Habitats The place where a species or organism lives

6. communities Many populations that live in the same area competing for the same things, water, shelter, food

7. ecosystems The interaction of communities with the non living envirnoment

8. succession Ecosystems that change over time Pond dries up becomes a meadow which becomes a forest

9. Ecology The study of ecosystems, ecologist are the people who study it – they study both living and non living things in the envirnoment

10. Pollution in ecosystems All living things get rid of waste but humans produce waste that effects the balance of nature. 3 ways

11. biomes Large groups os ecosystems that are found in the same area. Desert oceam grasslands forest tundra

12. Biosphere The part of the planet where life exists Includes both living and nonliving things All the biomes of the world are in the biopshere