Abiotic : non-living
Biome : large region of the earth with particular plant and animal communities
Biotic : living
Boreal Forest : the very large area of wet land in the far northern parts of the world that is covered with conifer trees (see also: taiga)
Climate : overall weather in an area over a long period of time
Community : all populations that live in a certain place
Consumer : organisms that obtain food by eating other organisms
Decomposer : organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms
Ecosystem : living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions
Ecology : the study of living things and their environments
Energy Pyramid : way of showing how energy moves through a food chain
Environment : everything that surrounds a living thing
Food Chain : a chain of organisms in which each link feeds on the one ahead and is eaten by the one behind
Food Web : way of showing how food chains are related
Habitat : place where an organism lives
Organism : any living thing
Polar : relating to the North or South Pole or the region around it
Population : group of the same kind of organism living in a certain place
Prairie : large, temperate grassland in central North America
Producer : organism that makes its own food
Taiga : the very large area of wet land in the far northern parts of the world that is covered with conifer trees (such as spruce and fir) that begins where the tundra ends (see also: boreal forest)
Temperate : having temperatures that are not too hot or too cold
Tropical : related to the tropics--the hottest regions on earth
Tundra : a large area of flat land in northern parts of the world where there are no trees and the ground is always frozen
Adapted from Ecology Vocabulary Quizlet by quizletsupport and Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, Cambridge English Dictionary, LearnersDictionary.com