Ecology

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A biological Community of interacting organisms and their physical Environment

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Ecosystem

Question 2

Any Living component that affects the population of another organism, or the environment.

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Biotic Factor

Question 3

Any Non-living part of the environment

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Abiotic Factor

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An individual animal, plant, or single celled life form

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Organism

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A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

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Species

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A group of individuals of the same species inhabiting the same area

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Population

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A group of interacting species living in the same place.

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Community

Question 8

A natural Home or environment of an animal, plant or other organisms

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Habitat

Question 9

Process where organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

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Natural Selection

Question 10

the process bu which different kinds of livig organisms are thought to have developed and envolved from earlier forms.

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Evolution

Question 11

and organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light or chemical energy. Green Plants

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Producers/Autotrophs

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An organism that cannot manufacture its own food and instead obtains its foos and energy by taking in organic substances.

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Consumers/Heterotrophs

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Living organism that eats the producers. Herbivores

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Primary Consumer

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Eat Primary Consumers. Carnivores

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Secondary Consumer

Question 15

Carnivore at the top of the food chain.

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Tertiary Consumer

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An animal that eats plants.

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Herbivore

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Meat eater

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Carnivores

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Eats meat and plants

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Omnivore

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A organism the decomposes organic material

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Decomposer

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Shows animals linked to each other through the transfer of energy and nutrients

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Food Chain

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A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains

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Food Web

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Model Showing the energy flow

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Energy Pyramid

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Photosynthesis, Decomposition, and respiration

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Carbon Cycle

Question 24

Processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms

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Nitrogen Cycle

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Gradual Process by which ecosystems change and develop over time

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Ecological Succession

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Succession of plant life.

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Primary Succession

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Series of community changes which take place on a previosly colonized , but disturbed or damaged habitat.

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Secondary Succession

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Species that are first to colonize a perviously disrupted habitat

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Pioneer Species

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Last to succeed

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Climax species

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Made up of abiotic and biotic features that interact with eachother

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Ecosystem