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Biology unit 6 Glossary Flashcards

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Ecology

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Studying relationships between organisms and their surroundings.

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Biotic factors

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Living components of the environment

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Abiotic factors

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Non-living components of the environment

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Population

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A group of the same species living in a certain area.

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Community

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All organisms in a certain area

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Biotope

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An area with all the abiotic factors

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Ecosystem

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All living things and non-living things in a certain area

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Biomass

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The total amount of all the high-energy substances in an organism

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Accumulation

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The proggresive build-up of substances in each subsequent link in the food chain

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Producers

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They make the food for all other organisms

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Consumers

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Animals eat the substances made by plants

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Breakdown agents

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The remains left by the scavengers are broken down by the breakdown agents

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Biodegradable

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Waste that can be degraded by breakdown agents

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Population size

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The number of organisms of the same species living in a certain area

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Biological equilibrum

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This means the population size fluctuates around a certain level

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Symbiosis

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A long-tern relationship between organisms of different species

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Mutualism

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A type of symbiosis in which bothe organisms benefit from the relationship

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Commensalism

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A type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is not affected

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Parasitism

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A type of symbiosis in which one organism benefits and the other is affected in a negative way

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Cultural landscape

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Landscape that arose under human influences

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Agriculture

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A cultural langscape formed by humans where we grow crops (food)

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Biodiversity

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The variation of species in nature

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Reintroduction

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Bringing an animal or plant back into a country

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Exhaustion

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When we take substances from the environment

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Pollution

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When we add substances to the environment

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Fossil fuels

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Fuels which are made of organic substances, so from dead remains of plants and animals

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(natural) Greenhouse effect

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Gasses in the atmosphere block heat radiation keeping the atmosphere warm

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Enhanced greenhouse effect

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The increased amount of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere lead to more heat being reflected (so increasing temperature)

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Autotrophic

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This is when an organism doesn’t need any other organisms as food

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Heterotrophic

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This is when an organism feeds on other organisms

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