1-25 animals Flashcards

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Include all living things

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Biotic factor

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2
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Is all the interacting organisms living in an area

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Community

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3
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Species with the broadest niche;tolerate a range of conditions

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Generalist

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4
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Organic material that has been produced in an ecosystem

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Biomass

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5
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Eat producers

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Herbivore

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6
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Water in soil or in underground formations of porous rock

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Ground water

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7
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The process by which water evaporates from the leaves of plants in terrestrial ecosystems

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Transpiration

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8
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The process of converting N2 has to nitrate

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Nitrogen fixation

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9
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Is a single pathway of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem that results in energy transfer

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Food chain

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10
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Eats both consumers and producers

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Omnivore

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11
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Non living factors that are physical and chemical characteristics of the environment

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Abiotic factor

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12
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Includes all of the organisms and the non living environment found in a particular place

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Ecosystem

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13
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The place where an organism lives

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Habitat

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14
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The study of the interactions between organisms and the living and non living components of the environment

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Ecology

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15
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The dependence of every organism on its connections with other living and non living parts of the environment

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Interdependence

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16
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Is the specific role

17
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Organisms that use energy to control some of their internal conditions

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Regulators

18
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Heterotrophs obtain energy from eating organic molecules made by other organisms

19
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Eat other consumers

20
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Organism that does not regulate internal conditions

21
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Species with narrow niches

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Specialist

22
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Indicates the organisms position in a sequence of energy transfers

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Trophic level

23
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An organism that feeds by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms

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Decomposer

24
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Moving to a more favorable habitat

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Adjusting to abiotic factors
Acclimation
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Includes all the members of a species that live in one place at one time
Population
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An organism that can make organic molecules
Producer
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The movement of carbon from the non living environment into things and back
Carbon cycle
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Consumer that feed on the garbage of an ecosystem
Detritivores
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The process in which nitrogen circulated among the air, soil, plants, and animals in an ecosystem
Nitrogen cycle
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Broadest most inclusive level of organization
Biosphere