Ecology

Question 1

Ecosystem

Answer 1

a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

Question 2

Biotic Factor

Answer 2

living components of an ecosystem.

Question 3

Abiotic Factor

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non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment

Question 4

Organism

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an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.

Question 5

Species

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

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Population

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a particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.

Question 7

Community

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an interacting group of various species in a common location.

Question 8

Habitat

Answer 8

the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

Question 9

Natural Selection

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the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring.

Question 10

Evolution

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the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Question 11

Producers

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An autotrophic organism capable of producing complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules through the process of photosynthesis

Question 12

Consumers

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An organism that generally obtains food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter due to lack of the ability to manufacture own food from inorganic sources; a heterotroph. Supplement.

Question 13

Primary Consumer

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Primary consumers are herbivores, feeding on plants.

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Secondary Consumer

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Secondary consumers, on the other hand, are carnivores, and prey on other animals.

Question 15

Tertiary Consumer

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a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers.

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Herbivors

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any organism that eats only plants.

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Carnivors

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An animal or plant (particularly insect- and invertebrate-eating plants) that requires a staple diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue through predation or scavenging.

Question 18

Omnivors

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An omnivore is a kind of animal that eats either other animals or plants.

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Decomposers

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Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms

Question 20

Food Chain

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A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or trees which use radiation from the Sun to make their food) and ending at apex predator species

Question 21

Food Web

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A graphical model showing the interconnecting food chains in an ecological community.

Question 22

Energy Pyramid

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An energy pyramid is a graphical model of energy flow in a community.

Question 23

Carbon Cycle

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The combined processes, including photosynthesis, decomposition, and respiration, by which carbon as a component of various compounds cycles between its major reservoirs-the atmosphere, oceans, and living organisms. carbon dioxide cycle.

Question 24

Nitrogen Cycle

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a continuous series of natural processes by which nitrogen passes successively from air to soil to organisms and back to air or soil involving principally nitrogen fixation, nitrification, decay, and denitrification.

Question 25

Ecological Sucession

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the various self-regulating processes that recycle the earth’s limited resources – water, carbon, nitrogen, and other elements - that are essential to sustain life.

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Primary Sucession

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one of two types of biological and ecological succession of plant life,

Question 27

Secondary Sucession

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a process started by an event (e.g. forest fire, harvesting, hurricane, etc.) that reduces an already established ecosystem

Question 28

Pioneer species

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hardy species which are the first to colonize previously biodiverse steady-state ecosystems.

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Climax Community

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the final stage of succession, remaining relatively unchanged until destroyed by an event such as fire or human interference.

Question 30

Ecosystem

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a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.