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Biodiversity Flashcards

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Ecosystem : definition

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All the animals + plants in an area interacting with one another

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Habitat

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The place where an animal/plant lives

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Population

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Members of the same species living in the same habitat

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Community

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All the animals together in the same area

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Biosphere

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The area where living things exist on the earth

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Abiotic factors

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Non-living factors that affect living things. E.g. Temperature, soil type, light, rainfall

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Biotic

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Living factors that affect living things. E.g. Competiition, predators, interdependence

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Competition

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The interaction between organisms for resources that are in short supply

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Interdependence

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The way animals + plants depend on each other for survival

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Predator

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An organism that hunts + consumes prey

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Prey

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Are hunted + consumed by predators

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Adaption

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When organisms have developed characteristics making it suited to it’s environment

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Feeding relationships

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The way energy + nutrients are passed from 1 organism to another in an ecosystem

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Carnivore

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An organism that eats animals

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Omnivore

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An organism that eats animals + plants

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Herbivore

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An organism that eats plants

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Consumer

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Eats other living things

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Decomposer

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Breaks down dead plants + animals to release nutrients back into soil

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What is biodiversity

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The different kinds of living things in an ecosystem.
Different organisms need different ecosystems.
Every type of organism has a job.
If 1 species is lost, that job can’t be done + the ecosystem suffers.

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Deforestation

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Large human population-needs food.
Land is cleared to grow food, resulting in loss of habitat for wild animals + plants.
There is less biodiversity

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Causes of loss of biodiversity

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Deforestation
Coastal Pollution
Ocean acidification
Burning of fossil fuels

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