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Ecology Test Flashcards

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The scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environments.

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Ecology

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The portion of Earth that supports life. From the atmosphere through the oceans.

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Biosphere

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The nonliving parts of an organism’s environment.

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Abiotic factors

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All the living organisms that inhabit an environment.

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Biotic factors

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A group of organisms that are able to produce fertile offspring and that share common genes and therefore resemble each other in appearance.

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Species

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A group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time.

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Population

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A collection of several (or all of the) interacting populations that inhabit a common environment.

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Community

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The interactions among populations in a community. Includes all of the biotic factors as well as the community’s physical surroundings, or abiotic factors.

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Ecosystem

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A group of ecosystems with the same climax communities (&/or climates).

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Biome

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Put in order: Organism, Biosphere, population, ecosystem, species, biome, community

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Organism, species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere.

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The place where an organism lives out its life.

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Habitat

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The role and position a species has in its environment. It includes all biotic and abiotic interactions as an animal meets its needs for survival and reproduction.

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Niche - an organism’s way of life.

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The act of killing and eating another organism.

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Predation

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An organism that kills and eats another organism

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Predator

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An organism that is killed and eaten by a predator

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Prey

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The relationship between species that attempt to use the same limited resource (a dog and cat fighting for the last piece of meat)

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Competition

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A close association between two or more organisms of different species.

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Symbiosis

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A type of symbiotic relationship in which one species (the symbiont) benefits and the other species (the host) is neither harmed nor benefitted.

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Commensalism

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A type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits (the parasite) at the expense of the other species (the host).

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Parasitism

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A type of symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship.

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Mutualism

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Generally, the larger of the two species in a symbiotic relationship.

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Host

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Generally, the smaller of the two species in a symbiotic relationship.

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Symbiont

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Is an autotroph a producer or a consumer?

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Producer

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Organisms that use energy from the sun or energy stored in chemical compounds to manufacture their own nutrients.

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Autotroph

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Are heterotrophs producers or consumers?

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Consumers

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An organism that cannot make its own food and must feed on other organisms for energy and nutrients.

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Heterotroph

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Organisms that break down and absorb nutrients from dead organisms.

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Decomposer

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The total weight of living matter at each tropic level.

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Biomass

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A sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another.

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Food chain

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A model that expresses all the possible feeding relationships at each tropic level in a community

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Food web

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Feeding step in the passage of energy and materials through an ecosystem.

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Trophic level

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What percent of energy from one trophic level is transferred to the next?

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10%

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An increase in the size of a population over time.

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Population growth

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As a population gets larger, it grows at a faster rate.

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Exponential population growth

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The number of organisms of one species that an environment can support.

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Carrying capacity

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Any biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the existence, numbers, reproduction of organisms

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Limiting factor

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birth rate - death rate =

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Population Growth Rate (PGR)

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The variety of life in an area; usually measured as the number of species that live there.

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Biodiversity

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The disappearance of a species when the last of its members dies.

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Extinction

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A species’ numbers become so low that extinction is possible.

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Endangered species

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When the population of a species is likely to become endangered.

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Threatened species

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The study and implementation of methods to protect biodiversity.

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Conservation biology

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Those parts of the environment that are useful or necessary for living organisms

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Natural resources

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When is an ecosystem in balance?

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When no animal is over the carrying capacity

45
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This species is very important; their removal can collapse the entire system.

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Keystone species

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