Ecology And Human Impact Flashcards

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Ecology

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Interaction between living and non living things

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Ecosystem

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Group of communities interacting with each other and the non living parts of their environment.
Self-supporting

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Interact

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Relationships between organisms

Ex.) yarn lab

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Deforestation

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Cutting down of trees

Ex.) burning down trees for land

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Population

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Group of the same species living in a certain place and can interact with each other

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Community

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All the populations that live in a certain place and can interact with each other

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Biodiversity

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Many different species

  • no natural predators
  • imported species, exotic, non native, introduced, foreign species
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Habitat

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Place where an organism lives

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Niche

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The role or job of an organism in its habitat

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Host

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An organism that is being attacked by another organism

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Scavenger

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Consumers that way dead animals

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Decomposers

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Organism that breaks down the wastes/ remains of other animals

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Carrying capacity

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Largest population that can be supported in an area due to limiting factors

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Primary consumer

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First to eat plants

Ex.) rabbit ears grass

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Secondary consumer

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Eats organisms that eats plants

Ex.) cats eat the mouse

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Tertiary consumer

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Eats the secondary consumers

Ex.) bear eats that cats that eats the mice