ecology Flashcards
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ecology
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study of how organisms with eachother and environment
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species
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same type of animals that have sex
3
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population
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same group of organisms
4
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community
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a lot of different organisms
5
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ecosystem
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all living things and there enviornment;abiotic+biotic
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biosphere
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sphere that hosts all life
7
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biotic factor
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something that is or used to be alive
7
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abioticfactor
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something that is never alive
8
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habitat
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specific environment in which an organism lives
9
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resource
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anything an organism needs
10
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how do populations grow
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birth+immigration-deaths+emigration
11
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population size
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describes the number of individual organisms present in a given population at a given time
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13
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population density
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population of unit area
14
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population distribution
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random, uniform,clumped(most common)
