Ecology Flashcards

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Ecology

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Is the study of plants, animals and their environment, and the relationship between them

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Environment

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Everything that surrounds an animal or plant (for example air, water, rocks and soil)

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Habitat

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Is the place where a plant or animal lives

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Woodland habitat

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Each habitat has its own community for example hedgehogs, foxes and primroses belong to the woodland habitat

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Seaside habitat

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Crabs, seaweed, shrimps and starfish can be found in this habitat

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Interdependence

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Interdependence is how organisms depend on each other for their survival, for example buttercups depend on bees, bees need buttercups

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Ecosystem

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All the plants and animals in an area interacting with each other and their environment. E.g. desert, tropical, rainforest, grasslands and seashore

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Producer

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Plants that makes their own food e.g. grass, dandelions, nettle

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Consumer

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Animals that get their own food by eating plants or other animals e.g.

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Herbivore

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An animal that eats plants only e.g. rabbit, sheep, slug, snail

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Carnivore

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An Animal that only eats other animals e.g. fox, hawk, ladybird

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Omnivore

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An animal that eats both plants and other animals e.g. badger, thrush, blackbird, humans

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Decomposer

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Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals e.g. earthworms, bacteria, fungi (Decomposers are very important as they break down dead things and release lots of minerals into the soil)

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Food chain

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A food chain shows how one organism eats another and so on

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Food chains must start with green plants

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Food chains must start with green plants because they are the only things that can make food

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Feeding level

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The position of An organism in the food chain is called a feeding level

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The first feeding level

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The first feeding level is always a green plant

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Sun

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The energy in any food chain comes from the Sun

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Plants

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Plants have the most energy as they make it from the sun

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Herbivores

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Herbivores get some energy when they eat plants

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Carnivores

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Carnivores get some of this energy when they eat herbivores

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______ get some energy when they eat plants

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Herbivores

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_________ get some of this energy when they eat herbivores

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Carnivores

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A _________ is two or more interconnected food chains

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food web

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_________ occurs when two or more organisms seek a resource that is limited

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Competition

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Plants compete for ______

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light, water, minerals and space

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Animals compete for ____________

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food, shelter, territory and mates

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__________ are features that give an organism a better chance of surviving in their habitat

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Adaptations