Ecology Flashcards

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Population

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One species in an eco system

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Individual

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Any single organism

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3
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Biosphere

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Regions of earth surface and atmosphere

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Phototroph

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Converts light into food

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Biome

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Region of the world

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Community

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All living things in an eco system

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Ecology

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The study of relationships between organisms and their physical environment and how they interact with each other

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Ecologists

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A scientist who studies organisms and their relationships between organisms and their physical environment and how organism survive in their environment

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9
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Niche

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The role or function of an organism and its environment and an organism purpose

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Ecosystem

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A limited area in which living and nonliving things interact and then varmint and all the organisms that live there

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Biotic factors

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Is any living organism that affects another organism including animals that consume the organism in question and living for the offense organism living factors that influences an ecosystem

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Abiotic factors

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Nonliving factors that influence in ecosystem. They can include water, oxygen, soil radiation from the sun, weather temperature, atmosphere and available gases, wind, nature, disasters

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Tolerance

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Billy of organisms to withstand change in the environment each organism has a tolerance range of the factors

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Optimum range

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Environment which is the study for an organism survival

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15
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Limiting factor

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A condition or factor which threatens an organism survival

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Carrying capacity

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Maximum number of organisms that and ecosystem can support

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Biodiversity

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The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem and the number of the right kinds of species in an ecosystem

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Biogeochemical cycles

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Are nutnent cycles that recycle minerals and other nutrients back to the environment

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Hydrologic cycle

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Recycled water

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Atmosphere cycles

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Recycle nutrients found in gases

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Sedimentary cycles

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Recycle nutrients in soil and rocks

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Levels of ecology

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Biosphere biome community population organism

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Atmosphere

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Earth

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Lithosphere

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The rigid outer part of the earth consisting of crust and upper mantle

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Biosphere

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Portion of the earth to wear of the life exist which is divided into three parts: atmosphere, Lithosphere, hydrosphere

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Hydrosphere

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All the water

27
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Biomes

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It’s biome is different because of its climate and geography. This factors limit the biodiversity in it’s a biome

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The major biomes

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They are tundra, boreal forest, Savannah, deciduous forest, grass left, desert, tropical rain forest, aquatic

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Producer

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Organism that makes it’s own food

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Consumer

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Cannot produce its own food

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Decomposers

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Feed on dead plants and animals

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Detrivores

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Eat dead plants and animals to break it into smaller parts of the decomposers

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Food chain

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A list starting with producers and arranged in order of what eats what

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Food web

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Shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem

35
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Symbiosis

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When relationships develop between organisms

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Mutualism

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Symbiosis and watch both organisms benefit from the relationship

37
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Commensalism

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Symbiosis in which one of the organism get benefits

38
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Parasitism

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Symbiosis in which one organism steals nutrients from the host