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Ecosystems 🌳 Flashcards

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What is an ecosystem?

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An ecosystem is the name given to a community or group of living organisms (animals and plants) that live in a particular location. It is interaction between living an dnon living things

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What is a community?

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A community is two or more populations of organisms. It is all different species that live in an ecosystm

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What is a population?

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All the organisms of the same of closely related species in an area

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What is an individual?

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Eg. One fish

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What is a habitat?

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The natural home or environmentof an animal, plant, or other organissm

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What is interdependance?

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When a community of species depend on eachother for basic neess such as food, shelter, polination, mates, seed dispersal

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What is a pathogen?

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A harmful micro organism

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What is a niche?

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A niche is a particular part or role an organism has within an ecosystem

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What is biotic?

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Living things in ecosystem

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What is Abiotic?

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Non living things in an ecosysytem

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What is transpiration?

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Loss of water through the stomata of leaves by evaportation

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What does a food chain alaways start with?

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A producer

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Where does the original dource of energy in a food chain come from?

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The sun

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Is a herbivore a first stage consumer?

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No its a third stage consumer

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What is a food web?

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Interconnecting food chains

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What is adaptation?

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Features of their physical bodies or ways they behave which allow them to sucseed amd survive

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What is biomass?

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Biomass is renewable organic material that comes from plants and animals

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What is a decomposer?

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Decomposers are bacteria and fungi which break down dead plant and animal matter

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What is a herbevore?

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A consumer that only eats plants

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What is a carnivore?

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A consumer that only eats meat

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What is a ombivore?

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A consumer that eats both plants and meat

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What does xylem do

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Carry water and dissolved materials

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What does the phloem do

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Has food for the plant (glucose)

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Xylophages

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Eat wood. Termites and bark beetles are xylophages

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Coprophages

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Eat animal faeces. Dung beetles and flies are coprophages

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Geophages

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Eat earth, such as clay or soil. Parrots and cockatoos are geophaes

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Palynivores

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Eat pollen. Honeybees and some butterflies are palynivores

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Ledidophages

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Are fish that eat the scales (but not the body) of other fish. Some piranha and some catfish ard ledidophages

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Mucophages

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Eat mucus. Usually, these tiny organisms live in the gills of fish

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Camoflage

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Some predators have evolved coloration or patterns that help them blend into their surroundings, making it easier to approach prey without being seen

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Speed and agility

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Many predators, such as cheetahs and falcons are very fast and agile allowing them to chase down prey

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Name some adptations of predators

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Camoflage, speed, agility, sharp claw and teeth, stealth and ambush, enhanced senses, strength, power, venom, coperative hunting

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Name some adaptations of prey

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Camoflauge, mimicry, speed and agility, binocular visiom, group defnse, burrowing or hiding, alarm calls, chemical defnses

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Bioaccumilation

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The build up of persistent or non biodegradabale pollutants within an organism or trophic level because they cannot be broken down

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Biomagnificatiom

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The increase in the concentration of persistent or non biodegredable pollutants along a food chain

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What are producers?

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Green plants- they make glucose during photosynthesis

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What are Primary consumers

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Usually eat plant material- they are herbivores, for example rabbits, caterpillars, cows and sheep

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What are Secondary consumers

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Usually eat animal material- they are canivores, for example cats, dogs and lions

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What are predators

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Kill for food. They are either secondary consumers or tertiary consumets

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What are prey

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The animals that predators feed on

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What are scanvangers

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Feed on dead animals, for example crows, vultures and hyenas

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What are decomposers

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Feed on dead and decayingorganisms, and on the undigested parts of plant and animal matter in faeces

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De-nature

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Where the shape of the enzyme changes so that it cannot work anymore

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What do nitrates do in plants?

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They help supply nitrogen which is needed to make proteins

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