Habitat Ecosystem
Levels of Organisation Abiotic Factor
Biotic Factor Omnivore
Carnivore Herbivore
Producer Consumer
Decomposer Predator
Prey Food Web
The natural environment where
A community of living organisms
an organism lives. Includes
interacting with non-living
resources that they need for
components in a specific area.
survival and reproduction.
Individual / Population /
Non-living part of an ecosystem
Community / Ecosystem / Biome
(e.g., temperature, sunlight, soil).
/ Biosphere
An organism that eats both Living part of an ecosystem (e.g.,
plants and animals. plants, animals, bacteria).
An organism that eats only An organism that eats only
plants. animals.
An organism that makes its own
An organism that eats other
food (usually through
organisms for energy.
photosynthesis).
An organism that breaks down
dead material, recycling
An organism that hunts and eats
nutrients back to the soil for
other organisms.
producers to use (e.g., fungi,
bacteria).
Overlapping of multiple food
An organism that is hunted and
chains showing energy flow in a
eaten by a predator.
particular ecosystem.
Physiological Adaptation Structural Adaptation
Behavioural Adaptation Symbiosis
Mutualism Commensalism
Parasitism Movement
Respiration Sensitivity
Growth Reproduction
Excretion Nutrition
Physical features that help Internal body processes that help
survival (e.g., thick fur, sharp an organism survive (e.g., venom
claws). production).
Actions or behaviours that help
A close relationship between two
survival (e.g., migration,
different species.
nocturnal activity).
One species benefits, the other is Both species benefit and neither
unaffected (e.g., barnacles on is harmed (e.g., bees and
whales). flowers).
Self-powered movement, either One species benefits at the
the entire body or one particular expense of the other (e.g.,
part. tapeworms in humans).
Ability to detect and respond to
The process of breaking down
change/stimulus in the
food for energy.
environment.
Producing offspring (more of the
Increase in size or number of
same organism) to continue the
cells. (irreversible)
species.
Requires food to grow and carry
Removal of waste products from
out processes that are essential
the organism.
for living.
Animal Kingdom Plant Kingdom
Monera Kingdom Fungi Kingdom
Protista Kingdom Kingdom → Species
Dichotomous Key Individual
Population Community
Biome Biosphere
Complex Multicellular organisms
Multicellular organisms that
that consume organic material
produce their own food via
(cannot make their own food).
photosynthesis. They have a
They have a membrane-bound
membrane-bound nucleus.
nucleus.
Organisms that absorb nutrients
from organic material and do not Single-celled (unicellular)
make their own food (e.g., organisms without a membrane-
mushrooms). They reproduce by bound nucleus (e.g., bacteria).
forming spores.
Mostly microscopic single-celled
A hierarchy of classification:
organisms (unicellular) with a
Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order,
membrane-bound nucleus (e.g.,
Family, Genus, Species.
amoeba).
A tool that helps identify
A single organism. organisms using a series of
choices between two traits.
A group of individuals of the
All the different populations
same species living in a specific
living and interacting in an area.
area.
The global sum of all A large region characterized by
ecosystems; the zone of life on specific climate, plants, and
Earth. animals (e.g., desert, rainforest).