Abiotic factors: the non-living physical and chemical attributes of a system, for example light or temperature in an environment.
Autotroph: an organism that uses solar energy or chemical energy to manufacture the organic compounds it needs as nutrients from simple inorganic compounds obtained from its environment.
Biotic factors: attributes in an ecosystem that refer to living organisms.
Community formed by populations of different species living together and interacting with each other.
Consumers: heterotrophs that feed on living organisms by ingestion.
Cross breeding: when members of different species breed together.
Detritivores: heterotrophs that obtain organic nutrients from detritus by external digestion.
Ecosystem: community of different species interacting with each other and with the chemical and physical factors making up the non-living environment.
Heterotroph: an organism that gets its organic nutrients by feeding on autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
Inorganic nutrients: chemical elements, compounds, and other substances necessary to sustain life processes that are not chemically carbon-based.
Interbreeding: when two members of the same species mate and produce offspring.
Population: a group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
Saprotrophs: heterotrophs that obtain organic nutrients from dead organisms by internal digestion.
Species: groups of organisms that can potentially interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
Sustainable communities: communities that are capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage.
Autotroph: an organism that uses solar energy or chemical energy to manufacture the organic compounds it needs as nutrients from simple inorganic compounds obtained from its environment.
Biotic factors: attributes in an ecosystem that refer to living organisms.
Community formed by populations of different species living together and interacting with each other.
Consumers: heterotrophs that feed on living organisms by ingestion.
Cross breeding: when members of different species breed together.
Detritivores: heterotrophs that obtain organic nutrients from detritus by external digestion.
Ecosystem: community of different species interacting with each other and with the chemical and physical factors making up the non-living environment.
Heterotroph: an organism that gets its organic nutrients by feeding on autotrophs or other heterotrophs.
Inorganic nutrients: chemical elements, compounds, and other substances necessary to sustain life processes that are not chemically carbon-based.
Interbreeding: when two members of the same species mate and produce offspring.
Population: a group of organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.
Saprotrophs: heterotrophs that obtain organic nutrients from dead organisms by internal digestion.
Species: groups of organisms that can potentially interbreed to produce fertile offspring.
Sustainable communities: communities that are capable of being maintained at a steady level without exhausting natural resources or causing severe ecological damage.