Ecosystem
Interacting populations if organisms with biotic and abiotic factors.
Competition
More than one individual or population in an ecosystem relies upon the same limited recourses.
A-Biotic Factors
Non-living factor that effects the ecosystem: light, space, temperature, shelter, water, soil composition.
Biotic Factor
Living factors that affect the ecosystem: food sources, other population members, other species.
Niche
Role in an ecosystem.
Limiting Factor
A biotic or abiotic factor needed as a resource for survival; depletion prevents growth or expansion of the organism or population.