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Abiotic

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Nonliving physical and chemical components of an ecosystem

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Biotic

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Living things, there remains and factors

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List 3 examples of a biotic thing

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Fish, trees, bird

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List three examples of an abiotic object

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Rock, soil, water

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Habitat

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Places where a species can live

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Niche

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The organisms place in the food web, it’s habitat, breeding area, and active time of day

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Producer / autotroph

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Organisms that produce its own food using energy from the sun through the process of photosynthesis

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Consumer / heterotrophy

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Organisms that obtains it’s energy by feeding on other organisms

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Herbivore

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Feeds on plants only

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Carnivore

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Feeds on other animals only

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Omnivore

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Feeds on both plants and animals

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Decomposer

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Breaks down dead organic matter but does not physically eat it

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Detritivore

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Feeds on small amounts of dead and decaying matter

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Scavenger

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Eats large amounts of dead organic matter

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List the biological organization (/10)

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Cell-> tissue-> organ-> organ system-> organism-> population-> community-> ecosystem-> biome-> biosphere

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Sustainable ecosystem

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An ecosystem that is able to maintain natural ecological conditions or processes without interruption, weakening, or loss of value in the long term

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All energy that flows through ecosystems originates in the what? Two processes are responsible for converting this energy:

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Sun
Photosynthesis
Cellular respiration

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Photosynthesis:

________ + carbon dioxide + ______ ——> ________ + ________

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Energy, water, oxygen and glucose

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Photosynthesis done only done by what?

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Green plants

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Photosynthesis traps the energy from the sun as _____ Energy stored in the chemical bonds of ______ molecules

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Chemical

Sugar

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Cellular respiration:

______+______———> carbon dioxide + _____+_____

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Glucose, oxygen, water, energy

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Respiration used by ____ organisms to release _____ from food

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All , energy

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Food chains represent the flow of a what in an ecosystem?

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Energy

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All food chain start with what which obtain its energy from the what?

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Producer

Sun

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All other organisms in a food chain are _____since they must eat other _____ to obtain their energy

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Consumers

Organisms

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Trophic level

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Describes how high on the food chain an organism is

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Organisms in the food chain are independent, which means that changes at one level of the food chain can affect other organisms at what?

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Other levels

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A group of interlinking food change that represent the flow of energy and then ecosystem is called what?

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A food web

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Food pyramids

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Methods of graphically and quantitatively representing the feeding relations in the food chain

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Pyramid of numbers

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Shows the number of organisms at each trophic level and gives that indication how many organisms are required to sustain the organisms in the levels above

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Pyramid of biomass- shows the total ____ ____ present at each level

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Dry mass

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Pyramid of energy

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Shows the energy contact of all organisms at each level

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Energy content of organisms at ___ tropic levels is always ____ than that at the lower levels

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Upper

Less

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Organisms at each level use up about ____% of the energy from their foods for for what?

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90%

Life functions

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Only ___% if the energy is stored in their tissues and can be passed on to the next _____ level

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10%

Tropic

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From food _____ we know that on each tropic level there are fewer organisms

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Pyramid

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Since the higher up the food chain you go the fewer organisms there are, the top what end up accumulating ____ chemicals in their bodies.

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Predators, most

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DDT (_____ commonly used prior to 1972)

  • human ______
  • causes ____ and _____ system damage
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Pesticide
Carcinogen
Liver & reproductive

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PCB’s (commonly used as coolants in industry)

  • human ______
  • causes _____ damage
  • significant pollutant in the _____ ______
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Carcinogen
Liver
Great Lakes

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Mercury

  • damages the ____ system
  • it’s organic form called methyl mercury has been shown to bioaccumulate in large ____
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Nervous

Fish

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Ecosystem

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Community together with all the abiotic factors that influence it

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Hydrosphere

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All water on earth

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Lithosphere

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Top layer of the earth

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Community

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All the populations of different organisms that make up an ecosystem

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Population

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All the individuals of the same species that live in a given area

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Biosphere

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All the living parts of the earth together

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Biome

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A large geographical area with similar climate and vegetation

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Atmosphere

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The air in a biosphere

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Bioamplification is the process by which increasing amounts of a _____ chemical are accumulated in the bodies if consumers that are ____ ____ on the food chain.

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Toxic

Higher up

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Biodiversity is the number of _____ in an _____

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Species

Ecosystem

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Biotic potential

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A measure of how fast a species can increase its population

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Carrying capacity for a particular species varies from ______ to ______ depending the factors listed above

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Ecosystem to ecosystem

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Competition occurs when two species rely on the same _____ or _____ ______ and thus compete for it

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Habitat or food source

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Predation is a relationship between two _____ in which one of them acts as a predator that captures and feeds on the other organism that serves a a the ____.

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Species

Prey

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The law of tolerance is when a organism can survive with a certain range of that _____ factor

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Abiotic

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Exotic (invasive) species

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An organism that is not native and has a negative impact of an ecosystem

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Closed system

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An ecosystem that does not welcome new species

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What does a pyramid showing numbers look like?

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Line, box, box, line

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What does a pyramid if biomass look like?

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Box, smaller box, smaller box, line

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What does a pyramid of energy look like?

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Box, smaller box, smaller box…. Line

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Explain how a population grows

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It starts low then increases to it’s carrying capacity (rapid growth) and goes slowly up and down around there

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