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Ecology Test Flashcards

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What is a community?

A

All the living organisms in an ecosystem

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What is an ecosystem?

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All the living and non living things in the area

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True or False: Energy moves in numerous directions throughout an ecosystem?

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False

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What is carrying capacity?

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The point at which the population of an organism has reached the maximum size that an ecosystem can support

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What is a niche?

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The specific area that an organism fits into its ecosystem, including feeding and living and everything about the animals lifestyle

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True or False: Ecosystems usually have more secondary consumers than primary consumers?

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False

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True or False: Biomass is highest at the bottom of the trophic pyramid?

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True

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True or False: Carrying capacity is reached when predators are removed from the ecosystem?

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False

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What is a population?

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All the individuals of one species only in an ecosystem

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What increases a population

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Immigration, birth rate

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When plants convert light energy into chemical energy, what process are they performing?

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Photosynthesis

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What is the cycle that involves carbon dioxide being released by organism and then being used by plants?

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Carbon Cycle

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An organisms niche includes…?

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where it lives, what it eats, what eats it and the relationships it has

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How does Nitrogen get back into the atmosphere during the nitrogen cycle?

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By denitrifying bacteria

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What decreases Population

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Emigration, and Mortality (death) rate

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What turns nitrogen into a form usable by plants and animals?

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Bacteria

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What is a way we could become more sustainable?

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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and walk and bike more often

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Why is the sun important part of an ecosystem?

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it provides energy for all organisms on the planet

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since resources are not unlimited an organism must do what to get them?

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Compete

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Predation

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a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds others

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Symbiosis

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the close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species

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Mutualism

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a relationship between two species of organism in which both benefit from the association

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Commensalism

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a type of relationship between two species of a plant, animal, fungus, etc. in which one lives with, on, or in another without damage to either

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Parasitism

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a relation between organism in which one lives as a parasite on another

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