Ecosystems 01 Flashcards
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What is biotic?
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Living things (organism) in the environment
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What is abiotic?
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Non-living things in the environment
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What is an organism?
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Living thing
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What is an ecosystem?
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Interactions between abiotic and biotic features of an area and the biotic community that lives in the area
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What is an individual?
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One organism
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What is a biological population?
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Group of individuals of the same species
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What are species?
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A group of individuals who successfully reproduce among themselves
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What is a biological community?
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Made up of all populations in one area
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What is a habitat?
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A particular place where species lives
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What is an interaction?
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Interaction between community members
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Sun
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- Provides energy that gives warmth enabling organisms to survive
- Provides light for plants to make food
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Air
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- Contains oxygen that animals need to breath
- Provides carbon dioxide that plants use to make food
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Water
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- Crucial to all organisms for life processes
- Plants need water to grow
- Many organisms live in water
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Soil
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- Contains both biotic (decaying bodies of dead organisms) and abiotic (minerals)
- Provides minerals and other nutrients for plants
- Plants hold soil in place, helping to keep them from blowing or washing away
- Provides a home to many animals who live underground
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Earthworm-Soil Interactions:
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- Burrows in and overturns soil allowing air and water to go down in soil
- Eats organic material in soil and passes remains behind them, often on surface
- This brings valuable nutrients to topsoil
