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Economy Flashcards

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Ecosystem

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Community of living things that interact with each other in their enviroment

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Ecology

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The study of interactions of organisms in their enviroment

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Biotic factors

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Living things in a enviroment

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Abiotic factors

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Non-living things in a enviroment

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Habitat

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A place were particular organisms live

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Organism

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Living thing

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Species

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A group of animals with many features in common

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Population

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The amount of the individual organisms species at a certain time

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Community

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Both living organisms both plant and animal at a certain time

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Producers

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Organisms that make their own food

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Consumers

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Organisms that relies on another organism for food

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Food webs

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Multiple food chains put together

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Photosynthesis

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A organism using the Suns energy to produce things like water and carbon dioxcide

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Chlorophyll

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The green chemical parts of a plant used for photosynthesising

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Cellular respiration

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A chemical reaction using oxygen that moves energy from the glucose to the compound ATP

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Autotrophs

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Organisms that produce their own nutrients

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Heterotrophs

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Organisms that rely on other organisms to supply their molecules and energy

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Carnivors

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Animals that eat other animals

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Herbivores

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Animals that eats plants

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Omnivores

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Animals that eat other animals and plants

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Detrivores

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Animals that eat other animals faeces

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Decomposers

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Small organisms that eat decaying animals

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Ecological niche

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Specific conditions to which an organism is able to live within

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Niche

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The conditions in which an organism lives

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Habitat

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A place in which a organism lives

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Intraspecific competition

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Members of one species compete for the same resources

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Intraspecific competition

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Members of one species compete for the same resources

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Host

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The organism in which a parasite lives in

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Parasite

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A organism that lives in or on another organism. The parasite benefits while usually harming the host organism

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Parasitism

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A relationship were one organism benefits and one dosn’t

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Mutualism

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A relationship were two organisms benefit

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Commensalism

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We’re on organism benefits without affecting the other

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Preditore

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The animal who hunts

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Prey

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The animal that is hunted

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Realationship

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A companionship between to biotic factors

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Symbiosis

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A long term interaction between two or more biological species

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Symbiotic

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Two diverse organisms that have sort of relationship were not always both benefit

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Food chain

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A diagram that show producer/producers and what they eat

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Food chains

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A diagram that shows the producer/s, what they/it eat and who eats it/they

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Food webs

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Multiple food chains put together

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First topic level

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The Lowest part of a food web which contains the most energy

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Second topic level

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The second lowest part of a food web which contains the most yet not full amount of energy

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Third topic level

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The second highest part of a food web which contains nearly the smallest amount of energy

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Fourth topic level

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The highest part of a food web which contains the smallest amount of energy

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Tophic levels

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Feeding levels in a food chain

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Tertiary

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The third in order level

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Agriculture

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The use of land to grow crops or raise farm animals

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Monocultures

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Crops grown on land used for one kind of crop only

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Fertilisers

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Chemicals added to soil to provide the nutrients needed for plant growth

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Eutrophication

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A form of water pollution involving an excess of nutrients such as nitrates and phosphorus leaching from soils, typically resulting in excessive growth of algae

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Eutrophication

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A form of water pollution involving an excess of nutrients such as nitrates and phosphorus leaching from soils, typically resulting in excessive growth of algae

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Biological control:

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a method of controlling pests by introducing one of their natural enemies

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Chemical control

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the control of plant or animal pests by the use of chemicals

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Pesticides:

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a substance or preparation for destroying pests, usually by being poisonous to them

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