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B1 Flashcards

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Ecotone

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Area between ecosystems where organisms interact

Edges: More biodiverse, organisms move back and forth between ecosystems

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Habitat

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Where a organism lives and gets its resources

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Niche

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Rols of a organsim in a ecosystem and how it intracts with it

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Range

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The spatial area where a species is found

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Distrubution

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How individuals in a population are distrubted at a given time

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Ecological niche

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  • Place in a food web
  • Habitat
  • Breeding area
  • Time its most active
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Territoral Niche

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Helps understand how organisms interact in a ecosystem

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New (exotic) species

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  • New spieces that can cause disturbance
  • How do they arrive?

Natural movement, seed dissposal, new routes, human introduction

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Major causes of depletion, extinction, and habitat loss (exotic species)

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  • No natural population controls
  • Native species cant compete
  • prey lack defense mechanisms
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Biome

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Region with a specific climate and species adapted to it

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Aibotic factors of quatic ecosystems

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  • Temperature
  • Sunlight
  • Dissolved Oxygen
  • Depth
  • Light
  • Clarity
  • Salinity
  • pH
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Lake Ecosystems

Littoral

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From shore to the point where no more plants grow

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Lake Ecosystems

Limnetic Zone

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Open water, suffeicent enough for photsynthesis

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Lake Ecosystems

Profundal Zone

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Beneath limnetic, insuffiecient light for photosynthesis

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Lake Ecosystems

Benthic Zone

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Lowest Zone, usually sediment at seafloor

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Seasonal varaition

Epilimon

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Warmest layer, usually during summer

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17
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Seasonal variation

Thermocline

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Middle ground between where temparuture grdually decreses

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Seasonal variation

Turnover

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Fall and spring, turns water into to the same layer

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seasonal variation

Winter

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turns the top layer into ice

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20
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Eutrophic lake

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  • High nutrients level
  • High photosynthesis
  • murky
  • Oxygen poor
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Oligotrophic

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  • Low nutrients
  • Photosynthesis limited
  • clear water
  • Oxygen rich
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22
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Terrestial aibiotic factors

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  • Depth of soil
  • Soil nutrients
  • Light
  • temperature
  • water availabity
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Soil layers

Litter

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Made up of partially decomposed leaves/grasses, and is the topmost layer

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Soil Layers

Topsoil

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Made up of small rocks, decaying plants, and animal matter, Beneath litter

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Soil Layers

Subsoil

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Made up of rock particles and some organic matter

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Soil Layers

Bedrock

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Layer rock, end of soil

27
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Water table

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Boundary between groundwater and soil

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Biotic limiting factors

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  • Compeiton for resources
  • Predation
  • Parasites
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Interspecific

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Competion etween 2 different species

30
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Intraspecific

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Competition between the same species

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32
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Aibiotic limitin factors

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  • Water
  • temperature
  • sunlight
  • oxygen
33
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Taxonomy

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Classifification system that infers reltionships among organisms

34
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Dancing
Kangaroo
Play
Catch
On
Fuzzy
Green
Sand

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Domain
Kingdom
Phylum
Classes
Order
Families
Genus
Species

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Domains

Eubacteria

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  • Unicellular/prokaryote
  • No nuclues
  • Asexual
  • Mixotrophic
  • Variety of habitats

is bacteria that makes you sick, help you digest, fix nitrogen,etc

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Domains

Archaebacteria

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  • Unicellular
  • Asexual
  • Chemoautotrophic or heteortrophic
  • Extreme enviornments
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Domains

Eukaryota

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  • Uni and cellular
  • Sexual
38
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Kingdoms

Bacteria

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  • Single celled
  • Wide range of habitats
  • Prokaryotes
38
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Kingdoms

Archea

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  • Single celled
  • Extreme environmetns
  • Prokaryote
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Kingdoms

Protista

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  • Single and multi celled
  • Eukaryotic
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Kingdoms

Fungi

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  • Single and multi celled
  • Eurakyotic
  • Secretes enzymes to ingest
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Plantae

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  • Multicelled
  • Eukaryote
  • photosynthesis
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Kingdom

Animalia

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  • Eukaryotic
  • multi celled
  • heterotropjs
43
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Plant pyhla

Byrophytes

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  • No true roots
  • Anchored by rhizoids
  • No vascular
  • Reproduce via spore
44
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Plant pyhla

Filicnophyta (ferns)

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  • Has leaves, roots, stems (leaves are pinnae)
  • has vascular
  • reproduce with spores
45
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Plant pyhla

Coniferophytes (Woody trees, shrubs)

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  • Leaves, roots, stems
  • Stems are woody, leaves are waxy and needle like
  • Vascular
  • Reproduce via non-motile seeds
46
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Plant pyhla

Angiosperophyta (flowering plants)

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  • Leaves, roots, stems
  • Highly variable in structure
  • Vascular
  • Reproduces in seeds
47
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Animal Phyla

Porifera (Sea sponges)

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  • Asymmetrical
  • No mout or anus
  • Silica or Calcium carbante based
  • Fixed in place (sessile)
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Animal Phyla

Cnidaria (Anemones, Coral, Jellyfish)

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  • Radial (Circular)
  • Mouth but no anus
  • May have stinging tentacles used for hunting prey
  • Corals secrete calcium arbonate skeleton
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Animal Phyla

Platyhelminthes (flatworms)

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  • Bilateral (two sides
  • Mouth but no anus
  • Flattened body (High SA:V ratio)
  • Maybe parasitic and require host organism
50
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Animal Phyla

Annelida (Earthworms and Leeches)

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  • Bilateral body
  • Seperate mouth and anus
  • Ringed segments
  • Perisataltic contraction at segments
51
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Animal Phyla

Mollusca (Slugs, Squids, bivalves)

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  • Bilateral
  • Seperate mouth and anus
  • Visceral muscle mass, muscle foot and mantle
  • Diverse in sie and anatomical structure
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Animal Phyla

Arthopoda (Spiders and Scorpians)

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  • Bilateral
  • Seperate mouth and anus
  • Jointed body secretions and appendages
  • Hard chitinous exoskeleton
  • 80% of all species are arthopoda
53
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Animal Phyla

Chordata (veterbrates)

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  • Bilateral
  • Seperate mouth and anus
  • Notochord, hollow, dorsal nerve tube all develop into a backbone
  • Some subphyla are invertabrates

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