Ecology

Question 1

Ecology

Answer 1

How organisms interact with their environment

Question 2

Biotic

Answer 2

Living things

Question 3

Population

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One species in one place

Question 4

Community

Answer 4

Many species in one place

Question 5

Ecosystem

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Interaction of the community with the environment

Question 6

Biosphere

Answer 6

Portion of the earth where life exists

Question 7

Lithosphere

Answer 7

Earth’s surface

Question 8

Hydrosphere

Answer 8

Water

Question 9

Atmosphere

Answer 9

Air

Question 10

Abiotic

Answer 10

Non-living

Question 11

Limiting factors

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Biotic or abiotic factors in the environment that limit the size of a population

Question 12

Carrying capacity

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The maximum number of organisms of a particular species that an ecosystem can support

Question 13

Heterotrophs

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Organisms that obtain performed food - ingest, digest, absorb, egest

Question 14

Herbivore

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Eats only plants

Question 15

Carnivore

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Eats only animals

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Predator

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Hunts, attacks and eats prey

Question 17

Scavenger

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Feeds on dead

Question 18

Omnivore

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Eats both plants and meat

Question 19

Saprophyte

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Decomposers that get their nutrition by breaking down dead remains

Question 20

Autotroph

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Organisms that produce their own food

Question 21

Photosynthetic

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Using sunlight to produce organic glucose

Question 22

Chemosynthetic

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Making food using chemicals

Question 23

Symbiotic relationships

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At least one organisms benefits by the relationship

Question 24

Mutualism

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Both benefit

Question 25

Commensalism

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One benefits and ones unaffected

Question 26

Parasitism

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One benefits and ones harmed

Question 27

Food chain

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Shows the flow whereby one organisms consumes another

Question 28

Food web

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Overlapping food chains

Question 29

Producer

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Autotroph, plant, bottom of the pyramid and first in the food chain

Question 30

Consumer

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Eats other organisms

Question 31

Decomposer = Saprophyte

Answer 31

Breaks down dead matter for nutrition ex: bacteria

Question 32

Cycles

Answer 32

. Water cycle

. Oxygen/ carbon dioxide cycle

. Nitrogen cycle

Question 33

Competition in ecosystems

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. Habitat - place where organism lived

. Niche- job or role in ecosystem

. Infraspecific competition - competition between two different species

. Interspecific competition - competition between two different species

Question 34

Stable ecosystems must have the following:

Answer 34

1. Cycling of materials
2. Autotrophs (plants)
3. Constant source of energy (sun)

Question 35

Ecological succession

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One community takes over another

Question 36

Dominant species

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Most powerful

Question 37

Climax community

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Final stable community

Question 38

Primary succession

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First time it goes through all the stages

Question 39

Terrestrial

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Succession on land

Question 40

Aquatic

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Succession in lakes and ponds

Question 41

Secondary succession

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Second time it goes through all the stages. Typically due to natural disaster

Question 42

Biodiversity

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The variety of species in a particular area