Chapter Two Vocab

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Biosphere

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Supports all living things

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Ecology

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Study of the interactions between an organism and it’s environment

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What is high in the atmosphere and all the way down into the deep oceans?

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The biosphere

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No living parts of the organisms environment

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Abiotic factors

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Examples of abiotic factors:

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Temperature, air

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Living organisms that inhabit an environment (living parts of an organism)

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Biotic Factors

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Four levels:

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Organisms, Population, Community, and Ecosystems

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Populations-

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Group of organisms that interbreed and live in same area

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True or false:

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No species live independently

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Made up of interacting populations in a certain place and a certain time-

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Biological community

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Interacting populations in a biological community and the communities abiotic factors

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Ecosystems

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Two major ecosystems:

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Terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems

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Terrestrial is located where?

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On land

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Aquatic is located where?

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Fresh and saltwater

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Habitat-

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Where an organism lives out its life

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True or false:

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Habitats can Change and disappear

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Strategies and adaptations a species uses in its environment -

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Niche.

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Symbiosis-

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Living together

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Predator is a type of what?

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Consumer

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Three types of symbiosis :

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1) Mutualism , 2) commensalism , 3) Parasitism

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Mutualism-

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Where both species are both benefited

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Commensalism-

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Where one species is benefited and the other is neither harmed nor benefitted

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Parasitism -

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Where one species is benefited and the other one is harmed

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Heterotrophs-

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Can’t make its own food

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Organism that uses light energy to make energy-rich compounds

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Autotrophs

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Feeds on plants -

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Herbivores

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Kills and eats other animals

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Carnivores

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Scavengers

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Eat animals that are dead

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Eat both plants and animals

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Omnivores

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Breaks down & releases nutrients from dead organisms -

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Decomposers

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Food chain -

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Shows how energy and matter move through an ecosystem

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True or false :

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Food webs are more realistic then food chains

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Organism that represents a feeding step-

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Trophic level

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Shows the feeding relationships at each trophic level

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Food web

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Biomass-

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Total weight of living matter at each trophic level.

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Matter is constantly being ______________.

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Recycled

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Three cycles -

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Nitrogen, carbon , and phosphorus