Ecology Flashcards

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Energy pyramid

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A model that shows the available amount of energy in each trophic layer in an ecosystem

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Food web

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A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things in a given area

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Decomposer

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Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms

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Food chain

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A model that shows one set of feeding relationships among living things

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Coniferous

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Plants that produce reproductive organs called cones

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Consumer

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An organism that eats other living things to get energy

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Biome

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A major ecological community such as grassland, rainforest, or desert

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Deciduous

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A forest containing trees that lose there leaves each year

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Ecology

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All the living and non living parts in an area that interact with each other

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Cycle

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The movement of a substance through different reservoirs or stages

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Nitrogen cycle

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A posses in which nitrogen in the atmosphere enter the soil and becomes parts of living organisms then eventually return to the atmosphere

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Biotic factors

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All of the living parts of an ecosystem

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Water cycle

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The continual movement of water between the land, ocean, and the air through predictable physical posses.

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Abiotic factor

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All the non-living parts of an ecosystem

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Producer

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An organism that makes its own food

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Carbon cycle

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A natural cycle in which carbon compounds, mainly carbon dioxide, are incorporated into living tissue though photosynthesis and returned to the atmosphere respiration decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels

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Predator

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An animal that hurts and eats other animals

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Prey

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An animal that is hunted and eaten by other animals

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Succession

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The sequence of communities that develop in an area

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Dependent variable

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A variable whose value depends on that of another

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Independent variable

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A variable whose variation doesn’t depend on that or another

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Constant variable

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A variable that can be measured

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Hypothesis

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A guess that supports your experiment