Ecology

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Ecology

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The study of the relationship between living things and their environments
Organisms get the materials they need from their enviornment

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JP Dewey

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Abiotic

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Non-living

Rocks, water, light, temperatures

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Biotic

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Living things

Plants, cats, insects

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Interact

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Means the process of organisms acting upon one another or on the non living environment
Interactions can be direct or indirect
Direct- big fish

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Ecosystem

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Group of communities interacting with each other and the main living parts of their environments
All the squirrels, chipmunks and soil in Sidney

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Predator

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Consumer, consumes and hunts other animals to obtain energy

Eater

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Prey

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Organism being eaten by predator
The hunted
Ex. Squirrel being eaten by snake

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Competition

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Struggle for resources within a community/ecosystem

Ex. Finches lab

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Symbiosis

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Close relationship between different species

Types of symbiotic relationships: Mutualism, communalism, parasitism

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Scavenger

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Consumes dead animals

Ex. Vultures, worms

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Parasitism

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Organisms that attack other living organisms ( host ) and eventually kill them after developing inside of them
Ex. Caterpillar and wasp
One harmed one killed

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Parasite

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Organisms that attack other living organisms ( host ) and eventually kill them after developing inside of them
Ex. Caterpillar and wasp

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Host

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Organism that parasite harms in parasitism

Ex. Caterpillar in Caterpillar-wasp relationship

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Mutualism

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Symbiotic relationship where both organisms benefit from the relationship
Ex. Flowers and bees

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Commensalism

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Symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
Ex. Barnacles and whales

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Decomposer

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Organism that decomposes dead animals and recycles materials and receives energy from dead organisms
Ex. Worms, fungi

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Community

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All populations that live in a certain place and can interact with each other
Ex. All squirrels, chipmunks, and rabbits in Sidney

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Population

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Group of the same kind of organisms in a certain place

Ex. All squirrels in Sidney

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Habitat

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Place where an organism lives

Ex. Forest is the habitat of the blue jay

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Niche

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The role or job of an organism in its habitat

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Producer

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Organism that makes its own food

Ex. Grass, plants

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Consumer

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Organism that eats other organisms

Ex. Lions

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Herbivore

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Consumer that eats only producers (plants)

Ex. Grasshopper

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Carnivore

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Consumer that only eats meat

Ex. Wolf

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Omnivore

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Animals that eat both meat and plants

Ex. Humans

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Primary consumer

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First organism to eat plants

Ex. Rabbit eats grass

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Secondary consumer

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Consumer that eats organisms that eat plants

Ex. Cats eat rabbits

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Tertiary consumer

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Organism that eats the secondary consumers

Ex. Bear eats the cars that eats the rabbits

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Autotroph

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Organism that makes its own food

Ex. Plants/producers

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Heterotroph

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Organism that needs to eat

Ex. Herbivores, carnivores, consumers, decomposers

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Food chain

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Show how the energy from food moves through populations of organisms in a community

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Food web

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Shows different levels of transfer, where energy is going from each organism
Highly interwoven

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Energy pyramid

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Shows amount of energy and how amount of energy transfers through levels of consumers/producers

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Carrying capacity

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Population limit that an ecosystem can handle
Ex. Cannot have too many deer
Throws ecosystem out of balance
Ex. Kaibab deer lab

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Global warming

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Increased burning of fossil fuels (CO2+methane) increases global temperatures and multiplies greenhouse affect

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Greenhouse effect

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Heat from the sun penetrates ozone layer, bounces off of earth and some heat is trapped and other escapes through greenhouse gases

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Lichen

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Has a mutual relationship with fungi

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Limiting factor

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Factors that limit the amount of organisms in a population