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Chp 4, 5 +6 Ecology Flashcards

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Ecology

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Study of interactions between living organism and between organisms and their environment

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Biosphere

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Part of the planet containing living organism

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Ecosystem

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Group of clearly distinguished organisms that interact with their environment as a unit

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Habitat

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Place where a plant or animal live

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Population

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Number of particular species living in a particular ecosystem

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Community

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Populations of different species living and interacting with each other in the same habitat

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Biotic factor

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Living factor
Organism’s influence on another organism

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Competition

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Two or more organisms that fight for a resource that is short in supply

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Abiotic factor

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Non- living factor

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Climatic factor

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Weather over a long period of time

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Edaphic factors

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Relates to soil

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Food chain

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Feeding relationships between organisms in which energy is transferred

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Trophic level

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Feeding stage in a food chain

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Food web

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Consist 2 or more intersecting food chains

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Ecological pyramids

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Used to show numbers of organisms in an ecosystem

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Pyramid of numbers

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Used to show numbers of organisms at each trophic level of a food chain

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Inverted pyramid of numbers

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Pyramid of numbers doesn’t take into account size of organisms
A tree can support thousands of caterpillars

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Niche

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Role of an organisms in an ecosystem
How it lives + does in its community

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Nodules

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Converts atmospheric nitrogen to nitrate

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Nitrogen fixation

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Process of nitrogen in air converted into nitrate

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Nitrification

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Conversion of ammonia to nitrites/ nitrates

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Denitrification

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Conversion of nitrates to nitrogen gas

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Pollution

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Addition of harmful substance to the environment

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Pollutants

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Anything that causes pollution

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Eutrophication

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Nutrients accumulating in water causing increase growth of microorganisms in water

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Conservation

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Management of our environment, which will prevent the death and extinction of organisms

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Contest

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Active physical confrontation whereby only one wins the resource

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Scramble

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Struggle between organisms for resource, whereby each organisms get some resource

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Predation

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Act of hunting, killing and eating prey

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Predator

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Organisms that does the hunting

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Prey

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Organisms eaten by predator

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Symbiosis

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Close relationship between two organism of different species in which at least one of them benefit

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Parasitism

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Relationship between 2 organisms of 2different species where one benefits and does harm to other

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Endoparasites

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Live inside hosts

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Ectoparasites

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Live outside host

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Mutualism

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Close relationship between 2 organisms which both benefits

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Population dynamics

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Study of changes that occur in a population and the factors that causes these changes

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Flora

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Fauna

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Key

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A mean of naming organisms by answering a series of question

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Tullgren funnel

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Heat from light causes insects to move down

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Qualitative study

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Records the presence or absence of species

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Quantitative study

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Record number of each species

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Percentage cover

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Estimate of the amount of ground in a quadrant is covered by a species

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Percentage frequency

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Chances of finding a named species with any one throw of the quadrant

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Line transect

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Rope marked at intervals
Record what touches the line and measure environmental at each

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Capture recapture

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Number caught and marked 1st x number caught 2nd
/ Number caught that are marked 2nd

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