Ecology Test Flashcards
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Abiotic
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Nonliving things that organisms depend on
1
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What is studied in ecology
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Study of how organisms depend on each other and depended on the environment to survive
2
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Biotic factor
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Living things that organisms depend on
3
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Ecology chain
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Organism to population to community to ecosystem to biome to biosphere
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Organism
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Living thing
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Population
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Group of organisms in the same area
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Community
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Populations in the same area
7
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Ecosystem
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Many communities, living and non living
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Biome
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Many ecosystems
9
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Biosphere
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All biomes on earth
10
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Density independent
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Doesn’t depend on population density, effects everyone the same
11
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Density dependent factor
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Depends on density, effects different populations the same
12
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Emigration
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Moving out
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Immigration
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Moving in
14
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Birth rates
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Rate of being born
