Ecology

Question 1

Ecosystem

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A biological community of interacting species

Question 2

Biotic Factors

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Living components that affects another organisms

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Abiotic Factors

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Non living chemicals

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Organisms

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An individual life-form, animal, plants

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Species

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Largest group of organisms

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Population

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All the organism of the same species living in a common area

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Community

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an interacting group of various species in a common location

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Habitat

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place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, including all living and nonliving factors or conditions of the surrounding environment

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Natural selection

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organisms better adapted to the environment and are tend to survive

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Evolution

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is the process by which organisms change over time

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Producers / autotrophs

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an organism that is able to form food for itself

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Consumers / heterotrophs

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can’t produce its own food

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Primary consumer

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is a consumer that feeds on the primary producer

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Secondary consumer

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Second position in the food chain

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Tertiary consumer

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The top of the food chain

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Herbivores

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Eats plants

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Carnivores

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Eats meats and other organisms

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Omnivores

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Eats both meat and plants

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Decomposers

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an organism that decomposes organic material

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Food chain

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Is a chain of organisms that are dependent on the ones below it

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Food web

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a system of interlocking food chains

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Energy pyramid

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is graph of energy flow in a community

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Carbon cycle

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the series of processes by which carbon compounds are consumed in the environment

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Nitrogen cycle

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the series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are consumed in the environment

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Ecological succession

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Change in species structure in an environment

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Primary succession

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new substrate devoid of vegetation and other organisms usually lacking soil

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Secondary succession

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Is an event like a forest fire that ruins everything

Question 28

Pioneer species

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Pioneer species are hardy species which are the first to colonize previously bio diverse steady-state ecosystems

Question 29

Climax community

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the process of ecological succession in the development of vegetation in an area over time, have reached a steady state