Ecology

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Ecology

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Is the study of plants,animals,and their environment and the relationship between them

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Environment

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Is everything that surrounds an animal or plant( for example air,water,rocks and soil)

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Habitat

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Is the place where a plant or animal lives

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Community

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Is all the different populations that live in the habitat e.g hedgehog,snails,foxes and primroses belong to the woodland habitat

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Interdependence

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Is how organisms depend on each other for their survival e.g buttercups depend on bees( for food),bees need buttercups(for pollination)

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Ecosystem

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All the plants and animals in an area interacting with each other and their environment e.g desert,tropical rainforest,grasslands, seashore

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Biome

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An ecosystem that extends over a very large area is called a biome

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Producer

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Plants that make their own food e.g grass, dandelions, nettles

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Consumer

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Animals that get their food by eating plants or other animals

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Herbivore

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An animal that eats plants only e.g rabbit, sheep,slug,snail

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Carnivore

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An animal that eats other animals only e.g fox,hawk, ladybird

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Omnivore

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An animal that eats both plants and animals e.g badger,thrush,blackbird, humans

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Decomposer

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Organisms that feed on dead plants and animals

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Food chain

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Shows how one organism eats another and so on

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Feeding level

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The position of an organism in the food chain is called its feeding level

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Amount of energy

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Gets less and less as you go along the food chain

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Food web

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Is two or more interconnected food chains

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Competition

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Occurs when two or more organisms seek a resource that is limited

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Adaptations

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Are features that give an organism a better chance of surviving in their habitat

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Abiotic

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Are non- living e.g weather (temperature,light intensity,rainfall,wind) soil and type of landscape

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Biotic factors

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Are living e.g competition, predation, symbiosis

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Predation

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Controls the number of organisms in an ecosystem e.g ladybirds eat aphids,lions eat zebra

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Symbiosis

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Is a relationship between organisms of different species where at least one benefits e.g cleaner fish eat parasites out of the mouths of eels

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Population

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Is a group of organisms of the same species living in the same habitat

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Balance of nature

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When over time the number and types of species in an ecosystem reaches a steady rate

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Biosphere

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All of the earths ecosystem together form one big ecosystem known as the biosphere

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Predator

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Is an animals that hunts and kills another animal as a source of food

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Prey

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The organism that is being hunted

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Niche

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Is the role of an organism in its habitat

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Feeding relationship

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Is the way energy and nutrients are passed from one organism to another

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Biomass

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The quantity of matter in an organism is called its biomass

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Conservation

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Is the protection, preservation and careful use of our natural resources

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Pollution

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Is adding unwanted wastes to the environment causing damage to it

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Air pollution

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Caused by smoke,dust and harmful gases- most of these come from cars,buses,factories and power stations

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Fossil fuels

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When fossil fuels are burned they produce gases called carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide

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Soil pollution

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Caused by pesticides, artificial fertilisers and acid rain

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Water pollution

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Rivers,lakes and seas are polluted by fertilisers,sewage,oil and detergents

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Landfill

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Burying the waste in ground

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3R’s

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Reduce, reuse and recycle

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Reduce

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Use your own bag, do not pick you the item with extra packing

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Recycling

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Paper, glass,some metals and plastics can be processed and reused