ecosystems

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ecosystems

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biological commnity of interacting and their physical enviroment

Question 2

Biotic Factor

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of, relating to, or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
“the preservation of biotic diversity”

Question 3

Abiotic Factor

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physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms

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Organisms

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an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.

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species

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group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.

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Population

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a particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country.

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Community

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a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.

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Habitat

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the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism

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Natural Selection

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the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring

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Evolution

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he process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

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Producer/ Autotrophs

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an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.

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Consumer/ Heterotrophs

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an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances.

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Primary Consumers

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an example is a rabbit that eats grass. The next link in the chain is animals that eat herbivores

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Secondary Consumers

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snake eating rabbit

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Tertitary Consumers

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a carnivore at the topmost level in a food chain that feeds on other carnivores; an animal that feeds only on secondary consumers

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Herbivors

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an animal that feeds on plants.

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Carnivor

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animals that eats meat

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Omnivors

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Animals that eat both plants and animals

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Decomposer

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Breaks down dead things

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Food Chain

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a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.

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Food Web

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food chains connected

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Energy Pyramid

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Energy flow in a community

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Carbon Cycle

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Process of Carbon compounds are interconverted in an environment

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Nitrogen Cycle

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process of nitrogen compounds are inerconverted in an environment and in living organisms

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Phosphorus Cycle

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the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

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Ecological Succession

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observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.

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Primary Succession

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One out of two successions in plant life

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Secondary Succession

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observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.

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Pioneer Species

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first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems, beginning a chain of ecological succession that ultimately leads to a more biodiverse steady-state ecosystem.

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Climax Community

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a stable mature community in a successive series which has reached equilibrium after having evolved through stages and adapted to its environment

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Ecosystems

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Interacting organisms and their physical environment