Eco Systems Flashcards

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Producer

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Plants are producers because they make there own food and nutrients by using the sun for photosynthesis

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Consumers

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Animals are consumers because we eat other organisms

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Herbivore

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An animal that only eats plants

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Carnivore

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Only eats meat

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Trophic level

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Each plant or animal is put into a trophic level in a food chain and each trophic level energy is lost so as u get to the topof the food chain there isnt much of the species

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Decomposer

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A fungi or bacteria that feeds on the dead

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Food chain

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What animals are put into of what eats what

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Food webb

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Many food webs put together

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Deforestation

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When lots of trees are cut down at one time this cn lead to more co2 in the air

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Eutrification

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When over fertilisation gets into water ways and kills plants and living organisms in the water.

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Fossil fuels

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Coal and oil things that take years to become the things they actull are today

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Green house gasses

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When gases like co2 and methane are trapped in the earth

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Global warming

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The rising of temperature of the sea and the air

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Acid rain

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When gases such as surlfer get trapped in clouds and it rains acid

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Species divirsity

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Extinction of a species

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Erosion

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When to much tress are taken away soil becomes erossed and bare and is more prone to flooding

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Ecosystems

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A unit containing all of the organisms and their environment, interacting in a given area.