Ecology Flashcards

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Def of Abiotic

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Non-living components of an ecosystem

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Def of biotic

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Living components of an ecosystem

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3
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Def of food chain

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The feeding relationship among species in an ecosystem

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Def of niche

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The function a species serves in its ecosystem

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What are the components of a niche

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Where it lives
What it eats
What eats it
How it behaves

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Def of producers/autotrophs

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Organism that uses the suns energy to make food

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Def of consumers/heterotrophs

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Organism that eats other organism for food

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Def of herbivore

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Consumes that only eats plants

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