Bio vocab - ecology

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the study of how living organisms interact with eachother and their enviorment

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Ecology

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a physical aspect an enviorment, also known as a non-living factor

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Abiotic factor

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a living aspect of the enviorment

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biotic factor

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complex system that consists of all the biotic and abiotic aspects

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ecosystem

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the role of a species in its ecosystem which includes the way that the species interacts with the abiotic and biotic factors in its enviroment

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niche

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a location where a specific population of a species leaves

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habitat

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the idea that two species cannot occupy the same niche in the same place for a long period of time

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competitive exclusion principle

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a diagram showing a single pathway through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem

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food chain

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a diagram that represents multiple pathways through which energy and matter flow through an ecosystem

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food web

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the feeding positions in a food chain or web

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trophic level

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the total mass of organisms at a specific trophic level

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biomass

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an organism that consumes other organisms for energy (herbivore, omnivore, carnivore)

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consumer

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an organism that creates its own food (photoautotrophs, chemoautotrophs)

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producer

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an organism that breaks down the remains of producers and consumers and release simple inorganic molecules back into the enviorment (scavenger, detritivore, saprotroph)

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decomposer

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the passing and recycling of different chemical elements through biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere

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biogeochemical cycle

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part of biogeochemical cycle that holds water or another element for a short period of time

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exchange pool

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part of biogeochemical cycle that holds water or another element for a long period of time

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reservoir

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the continueous movement of water in our biosphere

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water cycle

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the process where water in its liquid form changes into its gas form

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evaporation

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water from its solid state directly forms water vapor

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sublimation

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occurs when plants release water through leaf pores called stomata

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transpiration

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the process in which water vapor changes into tiny droplets of water

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condensation

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a stage that may occur after condensation, where the tiny water droplets get large enough, they will fall (rain)

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precipitation

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precipitation that is absorbed into the ground

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ground water

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the continueous process by which carbon is exchanged throughout the biosphere

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carbon cycle

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process by which nitrogen moves through the biosphere

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nitrogen cycle

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when plants absorb and incorporate nitrogen into organic compounds

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assimilation

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the process of combining nitrogen with hydrogen to form ammonia

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nitrogen fixation

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production of nitrate from ammonia

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nitrification