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Ecosystem Part 2 (General Principles in Ecology) Flashcards

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is a community of different living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system.

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Ecosystem

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It is a collection of all organisms that live in a
particular place together
with their nonliving
environment.

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Ecosystem

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Ecosystem has two types:

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❑ Natural Ecosystem
❑ Artificial Ecosystem

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Natural Ecosystem can take in several forms:

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❑ Terrestrial Ecosystem – land-based ecosystems

❑ Aquatic Ecosystem – ecosystems in body of water

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the living component of an ecosystem.

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Biotic Factors

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are the non-living component of an ecosystem.

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Abiotic Factors

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Climatic Factors:

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Rain
Light
Wind
Temperature

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Edaphic Factors:

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Soil
pH
Minerals
Topography

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Biotic Components kinds:

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Producers (Autotrophs)
Consumers (Heterotrophs)
Decomposers (Saprotrophs)

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Consumers (Heterotrophs) kinds:

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Primary
Secondary
Tertiary
Quartenary

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Is the relative position of an entity in the food chain.

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Trophic level

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▪It forms the feeding positions in a food web or chain.

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Trophic level

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All food webs and chains have
at least two or three trophic
levels.

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Trophic level

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The Autotrophs

Auto (means “________”) + trophḗ (aGreek word, meaning “_____”/“_______”/”_______”).

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“self”
“food”
“nourishment”
”nutrition”

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Members of this tropic level are capable of producing their own food source.

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The Autotrophs

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They acts as the food producers in a food chain.

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The Autotrophs

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Give some examples of autotrophs:

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Plants
Algae
Cyanobacteria
Phytoplanktons

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Hetero-(means “_______”) + trophe (aGreek word, meaning “________”/“_____”/”____”).

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“others”
“food”/“nourishment”/”nutrition”

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Organisms’ member of this tropic level depends on the producers for nourishment.

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The Heterotrophs

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They acts as the consumers in a food chain.

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The Heterotrophs

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Classification of
heterotrophs based on diets:

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❖ Herbivore
❖ Carnivore
❖ Omnivore
❖ Microbivores
❖ Detritivores

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Microorganisms, including detritivores, feed on decomposing materials to break down its components into simpler molecules.

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The Decomposers: Special Heterotrophs

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❑ Shows a series of transfer of energy (food)
❑ Involves the organisms in different trophic levels in transferring energy.
❑ “Who eats what”
❑ Food web: Interconnecting food chains

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Food Chain

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process of eating and being eaten

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Food Chain:

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consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.

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Food Web

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▪Each living thing in an
ecosystem is part of multiple
food chains.

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Food Web

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is one possiblepath that energy and nutrients may take as they move through the ecosystem.

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Food Web

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depicts how energy and biomass decrease from lower to higher trophic levels.

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Ecological Pyramid

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❑Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις, symbíōsis, _________, from
σύν, sýn, “together”, and βίωσις, bíōsis, _____) is any type of a closeand long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms.

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Symbiotic Relationships

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can be obligatory, which means that one or more of the symbionts depend on each other for survival, or facultative (optional), when they can generally live independently.

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Symbiosis

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is also classified by physical attachment

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Symbiosis

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It is biological relationshipor interaction between organisms.

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Symbiotic Relationship

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Types of symbiosis:

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❑ Mutualism
❑ Commensalism
❑ Parasitism
❑ Predation
❑ Competition

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Is an interspecific interaction that benefits both species

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Mutualism

35
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A Mutualism for protection

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Defensive

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A mutualism one cannot survive without resorting mutualism to other

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Obligate

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Defensive:

Acacia plant (provides _____) and acacia ants Pseudomyrmex ferruginea (provides ___)

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Food
Defense

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Obligate:

The Theory of ______ (dependency)

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Endosymbiosis

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A mutualism Can live independently but can provide benefits to both

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Protocooperation

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Protocooperation:

Plants (provide ____) and bees
(helps in _____)

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Nutrients
Pollination

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A mutualism participants live on the other’s surface

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Endosymbiosis and Ectosymbiosis

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Endosymbiosis and Ectosymbiosis:

Sea anemone (provide _______)
and clown fish (___________) from its waste)

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shelter/protection
cleans/provide nutrients

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type of symbiosis that one species benefits and the other is not affected

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Commensalism

44
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A type of symbiosis that one participant benefits, the
other neither benefits nor
harmed.

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Commensalism

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Commensalism

Mantay ray (provide ______) to a school of bait fish from aerial _______

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Protection
Predators

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A type of symbiosis that derives its nourishment from another organism, its host, which is
harmed in the process

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Parasitism

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Parasitism

It is the participant being harmed.

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Host

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Parasitism

the participant that harms

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Parasite

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Types of Parasitism:

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  1. Obligate
  2. Parasitism
  3. Facultative Parasitism
  4. Ectoparasitism
  5. Endoparasitism
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Types of Parasitism:

life cycle depends on host

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Obligate Parasitism

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Types of Parasitism:

Organisms can be a free-living but can be parasitic when given the opportunity

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Facultative Parasitism

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  1. Facultative Parasitism

Naegleria fowleri is a __________amoeboid, but can infect humans

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freshwater

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Types of Parasitism:

Parasitic participant lives outside or on hosts’ surface

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Ectoparasitism

55
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What paratism?

Head lice on human hair

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Ectoparasitism

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Types of Parasitism:

Parasitic participant lives within the host.

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Endoparasitism

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What Paratism Example

A diseases called lymphatic filariasis (or elephantiasis) is caused by filarial roundworms blocking the lymphatic channels. Usually caused by Wuchereria

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Endoparasitism bancrofti.

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One participant eats (kill) the other.

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Predation

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Predation

the one who kills

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Predator

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Predation

the one being killed

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Prey

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A wolf hunting fish for food

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Predation

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Predation refers to an interaction
◦Where one species, the predator, kills and eats the other, the prey

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Predation

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Feeding adaptations of predators include ◦____, ____, ____, ___, and ____

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Claws, Teeth, Fangs, Stingers and Poison

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Animals also display
◦A great variety of _____adaptations

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Defensive

65
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Predation

Adaptations to prevent/escape predation

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  1. Camouflage
  2. Warning coloration
  3. Mimicry
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One is harmed when both are trying to use the same resource related to growth, reproduction, or survivability.

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Competition

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It can occur between organisms of the same species, or between members of different species.

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Competition

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The existence of one organism or population threatens
or competes with the other for resource and habitat.

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Competition

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Types of Competition

participants are from the different species

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Interspecific

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Types of Competition

participants are from the same species

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Intraspecific

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Competition

______ can lead to competitive exclusion or the _______ of one of the two competing species

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Strong competition
local elimination

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Competition

Hyenas and Lions compete for
buffalo carcass

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Interspecific

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Competition

Two male zebras battle for
dominance to lead the herd

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Intraspecific

74
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The interaction can be detrimental to both species

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Competition (-/-)

75
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The interaction is beneficial to one species and detrimental to the other

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Predation (+/-)
Parasitism (+/-)

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The interaction is beneficial to both species

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Mutualism (+/+)

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One species benefits from the interaction, and
the other species is unaffected.

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Commensalism (+/0)

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