Ecosystem Flashcards

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It of the basic functional unit of an environment in which living and nonliving organisms interact

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Ecosystem

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These are large sections of land, sea, or atmosphere

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Biomes

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Two Biotic Factors

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• Autotrophs
• Heterotrophs

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They can produce food of their own by the process of photosynthesis and chemosynthesis.

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Autotrophs (Producers)

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They depend on autotrophs for food.

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Heterotrophs (Consumers)

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Producers which prepare food through photosynthesis using low solar energy.

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Phototrophs

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Producers which prepare food through chemosynthesis using atmospheric oxygen.

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Chemotrophs

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Consumers who depend on dead plants and animals for nutrition.

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Saprophytes (Decomposers)

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Consumers who depend on living organisms for nutrition.

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Parasites

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Consumers who get food through the mouth.

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Holozoic

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It composes those organisms that make their food.

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The producer level

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It composes those organisms that feed on the producer level.

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The primary consumer level

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It composes those organisms that feed on the primary consumers.

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The secondary consumer level

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14
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Two Types of Ecosystem

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✓ Aquatic Ecosystem
✓ Terrestrial Ecosystem

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Water-based Ecosystem

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Aquatic Ecosystem

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Land-based Ecosystem

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Terrestrial Ecosystem

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17
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Two Types of Aquatic Ecosystem

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• Freshwater Ecosystem
• Marine Ecosystem

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Water bodies that are moving slowly or are still in some places.

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Lentic Ecosystem

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Water bodies that are moving at a fast pace.

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Lotic Ecosystem

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Environments characterized by soils saturated with water for a long time.

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Wetlands

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Known as the Largest Type of ecosystem on earth.

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Marine Ecosystem

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Four types of Terrestrial Ecosystem

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✓ Forest ecosystem
✓ Grassland ecosystem
✓ Mountain ecosystem
✓ Desert ecosystem

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Have incredibly high temperatures and low availability of water.

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Desert Ecosystem

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Characterized by mountainous regions where the climate is usually.

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Mountain Ecosystem

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An ecosystem where many organisms live together with the environments abiotic components.

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Forest Ecosystem

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Are organisms that can make their food.

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Producers (Autotrophs)

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Are organisms that does not produce its food but must eat other organisms to obtain energy.

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Consumers (Heterotrophs)

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Four types of consumers

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• Herbivores
• Carnivores
• Omnivores
• Detritivores

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Consumers that only eat plants.

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Herbivores

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Consumers that only eat animals.

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Carnivores

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Consumers that eat both plants and animals.

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Omnivores

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Consumers that eat bodies of organism.

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Detritivores

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They break down wastes and dead plant and animal matter into simple nutrients.

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Decomposers

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Pyramid that shows the rate of energy flow and productivity at successive trophic levels.

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Pyramid of Energy

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Pyramid that shows the number of individual organisms at each level.

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Pyramid of Numbers

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Pyramid that shows the total living biomass or organic matter present at different trophic levels in an ecosystem.

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Pyramid of Biomass.

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A graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.

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Food webs

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Is the name would give to the variety of all life on earth.

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Biodiversity

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Is most often used to describe a relationship in which at least one species benefits.

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Symbiosis

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An interaction between two species in which one species feeds on the other species

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Predation

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A relationship between two species, where one species benefit from the other by harming it.

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Parasitism

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Relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected

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Commensalism

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Relationship between two species in which both species benefit.

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Mutualism

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Type of biological interaction where one species causes harm to another organism without any costs or benefits to itself.

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Amensalism