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Chapter 14 (Ecosystems) Flashcards

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1
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What is ecosystem and what are the components of ecosystems?

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ecosystem - living + non-living

It includes:
- Producers
- Consumers
- Decomposers
- The physical environment

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What are living and non-living components of an ecosystem called?

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  • living components - biotic components
  • non-living components - abiotic components
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What is habitat?

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Habitat is the place where an organism lives.

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What is population?

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Number of the organisms of a particular species found in an ecosystem at a certain time.

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What is community?

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The populations of all species found in an ecosystem at a particular time.

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How do ecologist count number of organism in a ecosystem?

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By sample.

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How are sampling done?

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It can be done using a quadrat.

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What does the size of quadrats depend on?

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It depends on the size of the organisms being sampled.

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What is needed to be consider when sampling an area?

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It must be carried out at random to avoid bias.

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How can sampling be done to avoid biased?

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By using random number generator.

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What is ecosystem’s biodiversity?

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The amount of variation shown by species in an ecosystem.

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What are the measurements of biodiversity?

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  • Species richness (number of different species present)
  • Their evenness of number
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What is the benefit of ecosystems with high biodiversity?

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They are often more stable than ones with lower biodiversity.

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Why higher biodiversity are more stable than ones with low biodiversity?

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Because an ecosystem that is dominated by one or a few species is more likely to be affected by any sort of ecological disaster.

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What are the interactions in ecosystem?

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  • Feeding among the organisms
  • Competition among the organisms
  • Interaction between organisms and the environment
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What does food chain show?

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It shows the feeding relationships between organisms within a ecosystem.

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17
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Food chain
_____ —–> _____ —–> _____ —–> _____.

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Producer, Primary consumer, Secondary consumer, Tertiary consumer

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18
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What is more than one food chain called?

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Food Web

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Which kind of animals are primary consumers and secondary consumer?

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Primary consumers - herbivore
Secondary consumers - Carnivore

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How much energy from the eaten animal is transferred to the animal which eat it?

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Only 10%

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What is the name of animals that eat tertiary consumer?

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Quaternary consumer

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What do different stages in a food chain called?

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Trophic levels

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What does arrow mean in food chain?

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Eaten by

24
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What is the disadvantage of food chain?

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They don’t give any information about how many, or what mass of organisms is involved and they don’t show the role of decomposers.

25
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Biotic factors are _____?

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Biological

26
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Abiotic factors are ______?

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Physical or chemical

27
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What is ecosystem?

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Ecosystem is a distinct, self-supporting system of organisms interacting with each other and with a physical environment.

28
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What are examples of biotic factors?

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  • Food supply / competition for food
  • Predation
  • Parasitism
  • Disease
  • Presence of pollinating insects
  • Availability of nest sites
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What are examples of abiotic factors?

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  • Climate (light intensity, temperature)
  • Hours of daylight
  • Soil condition
  • Pollution
  • other factors specific to a particular habitat
30
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What is main biotic factors affecting animals?

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Food supply

31
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What is main abiotic factor affecting large ecosystem?

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Climate (Temperature/ rainfall)

32
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What are factors affecting the species richness and their evenness depend on?

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Type of ecosystem

33
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What are ecological pyramids?

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They are diagrams that represent the relative amounts of organisms at each trophic level in a food chain.

34
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What are 2 main types of ecological pyramids?

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  • Pyramids of numbers
  • Pyramids of biomass
35
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What does pyramids of number show?

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It represent the numbers of organisms in each trophic level in a food chain.

36
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What does pyramids of biomass show?

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It show the total mass of the organism in each trophic level.

37
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Which ecological pyramid tend to always stay in pyramid shape?

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Pyramid of biomass

38
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What the mass of the of organism decrease in in pyramid of biomass?

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  • Some parts are not eaten
  • Some pats are not digested and absorbed
  • Some materials form excretory products
  • Many materials are use to respire to release energy

These losses are repeated at each stage in the food chain.

39
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What is a way of transferring energy between organisms?

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Feeding

40
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Why some marine food chains have six trophic levels?

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Because of the huge amount of light energy reaching the surface water.

41
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Which organisms pay key role in recycling and why?

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Microorganisms since they break down organic molecules in the dead bodies of animals and plants into simpler substances.

42
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What are some important process in cycling carbon through ecosystem?

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  • Photosynthesis
  • Feeding and assimilation
  • Respiration
  • Fossilization
  • Combustion
43
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What fixes carbon atoms from carbon dioxide into organic compounds?

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Photosynthesis

44
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What does feeding and assimilation do?

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It pass carbon atoms along food chains.

45
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What release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in carbon cycling?

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  • Respiration of animals, plants and decomposers
  • Combustion of fossil fuels,
46
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What is fossilization?

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Where some dead organisms do not decay fully and become fossil fuels due to conditions in the soil.

47
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Where are nitrogen included?

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Proteins, vitamins, DNA and ATP.

48
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What pass the nitrogen atoms along food chains?

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Feeding and assimilation

49
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What are importance process in cycling nitrogen through ecosystem?

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  • Feeding and assimilation
  • Decomposition
  • Nitrification
  • Absorption of nitrogen by plant roots
50
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What is nitrification?

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Where nitrifying bacteria oxidized ammonia to nitrite and then to nitrate.

51
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What does denitrifying bacteria do?

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It use nitrates as energy source and convert them into nitrogen gas.

52
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What reduce the amount of nitrate in the soil?

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Denitrification

53
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What convert nitrogen gas into ammonia?

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Free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria in soil

54
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What is mutualism?

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Where both organisms benefit from the relationship.

55
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What converts nitrogen gas in the air into oxides of nitrogen (nitrite)?

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Lightening

56
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How does nitrogen from dead matter returns?

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They return to soil as ammonia by decomposers.

57
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Which kind of biomass is used to measure?

A

Dry biomass

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