The Living Environment

A self contained living thing.

The place where an organism lives.

All the organisms that live together in an ecosystem.

The number of organisms of one species in an ecosystem.

A natural biological unit made up of living and non-living parts, ie the community and the habitat.

The variety that exists among living things.

A group of organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring.

A living feature of an ecosystem, such as food supply, disease, predation.

A non-living feature of an ecosystem, such as light intensity, precipitation, temperature, wind speed, wind direction.

Any feature that makes an organism well suited to living in its environment.

A negative interaction that occurs between organisms whenever there is demand for a limited resource.

An animal that only eats other animal material.

An animal that only eats plant material.

An animal that eats both plant and animal material.

An animal that feeds on dead organic matter, e.g., wood louse, earthworm, maggot.

Bacteria and fungi that feed on dead organic matter at a microscopic level.

An organism that can produce its own food; usually a green plant that produces its own food via photosynthesis.

A herbivore that eats the producer in a food chain.

An animal that eats the primary consumer in a food chain.

An animal that eats the secondary consumer in a food chain.

The role played by a species within a community: where it lives, what it eats and what eats it.

A species introduced through human action (accidental or deliberate) outside its native distribution.

Any non-native animal or plant that has the ability to spread and cause damage to the environment, the economy, our health or the way we live.

The presence, absence or abundance of certain living organisms that show an environment is affected by a particular set of environmental conditions.