Ecology Vocabulary (Quiz #3) Flashcards

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Niche

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Organisms role in its environment

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Habitat

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Physical chemical and biological factors of an environment

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Community

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Multiple species in the ecosystem

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Symbiosis

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To close relationships existing went to or more species live together

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Commensalism

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And if it’s one and doesn’t affect the other

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Mutualism

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Benefits both

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Parasitism

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Benefits one harms the other

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Predation

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Other organisms being ate and hunted

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interspecific competition

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Diff population/ecosystem organisms competing for resources

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Competitive exclusion

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Two spaces that compete for the same resources cannot coexist easily

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Resource partitioning

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Switching a resource

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Keystone species

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Large affect on its environment

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HosT

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Organism of her site and habits

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Convolution

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A change triggered by the change of a related objects

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Camouflage

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Defense tactic where they blend into the surroundings

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Mimicry

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Defense tactic word organism can resemble another

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Ecological succession

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The predicted replacement of an ecosystem committee

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Pioneer species

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First species in a community

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Climax community

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A stable community who can regenerate because of its characteristics

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Exotic species/invasive’s exotics

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Species that was brought to a place that is from a habitat

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Native/indigenous species

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Species native to its environment

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Endangered species

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Species that may go extinct unless protected

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Primary producers

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Producers

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Consumers

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Heterotrophic levels

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Decomposers

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Detritivores

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Ecosystem

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Home System

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Trophic levels

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Feeding levels degrees Hetero and auto troph

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Primary productivity

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Synthesis of organic compounds from the atmosphere

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Energy.

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Show energy transfer between the traffic level

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Biogeochemical cycle

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Cycle chemical substances are recycle bin

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Hydrologic cycle

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The water cycle

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Watershed

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The place where water drains and specific like a lake or stream

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Eutrophication

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Adding nutrients to an ecosystem decreased oxygen

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Greenhouse effect

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Process that helps in the heating of the earth

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Nitrogen cycle

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Process by which nitrogen is changed

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Biosphere

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Life circle around her

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Nitrogen fixation

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Is converted to ammonium

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Lagumes

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Implant with nitrogen fixing rooy nodules

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Biodiversity

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Degree of variation of life

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Sustainability

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How environments remain diverse productive