adaptation to enviourmnet Flashcards

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biotic factors

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living factors which depend on
- feeding
- prey
- symbaiotic
- mutualistic/ interdependant relatioships

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abiotic factors

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  • non living physical factors
  • has an influence on specific adaptations of organisms in their habitat
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biome

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a large natural area of flora and fauna

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population

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a group of organisms- same specis- same area

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community

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group of populations living together and interacting

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herbivore

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primary consumers feed on producers (bison eating grass)

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predation

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predator eating prey

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interspecific competition

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2 or more species using the same resources reducing availability (lion and hayena eating prey)

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mutualism

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2 species living closely (birds picking the teeth if crocodile)

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parasitism

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parasite living inside or outside another species (roundworms living in racoon)

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pathogenicity

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pathogen living inside of a host- causing disease (tubercolosis in budgers)

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12
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endemic species

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species which occour naturally in an ecological niche

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13
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invasive species

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those which were introduced by humans

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