Ecosystems

Question 1

Ecosystems

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It is large and all encompassing, and its relationships and interactions
can be very complex, so we tend to study smaller components of the biosphere, called ecosystems.

Question 2

Biotic

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Living organisms

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Abiotic

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Non living conditions

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Habitat

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A habitat is a particular area where a group of different organisms live, and the area is similar to abiotic condition.

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Population

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All the individuals of a particular species living the the same habitat called a population

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Community

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All of the populations of all the different organisms in that habitat called a community

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Photosynthesis

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The process of which plants take in carbon dioxide form the air or water if they are aquatic plants and release oxygen in the process of photosynthesis

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Respiration

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Plants and animals including humans, use the oxygen from the process of photosynthesis in a process called respiration, and release carbon dioxide back into the air.

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Glucose

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The sun’s energy is used is used to join carbon dioxide in water molecules to form oxygen and a sugar called glucose

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Food chain

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A food chain shows a list of organisms in the order of what they eats what with an arrow between each organism to indicate the direction of the flow of energy

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Food web

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These multiple food chains can be linked together in a food web to represent the feeding relationship between the different organisms in a ecosystem

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Trophic level

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Position in a food web depending of which food chain within the web

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Introduced species

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A introduced species is an organism not native or natural to the ecosystem

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Biological control

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Using existing food web relationships to control a species

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Biodiversity

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Is a measure of number of different species in a particular ecosystem

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Microorganism

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Where one of the first forms of life on earth, the types of them are bacteria, Protozoa, fungi

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Eutrophication

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Of an aquatic ecosystem occurs when excess nutrients are available

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Pathogen

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A foreign body that can potentially cause a disease

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Ecology

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Is the study of ecosystem and the changes of ecosystem

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Biological resources

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Include the whole or part of a organism, the genetic material found in cells of organisms and the chemicals produced by its cells.

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Biosphere

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The biosphere describes the living component of Earth. The biosphere is made up of all organisms found within the kingdom of life

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Natural events

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A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. There can also be regular natural events.

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SOC

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Soil organic carbon is the carbon stored within the soil which is made up of decaying plants and animal material.

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Selective breeding

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plants being bred to keep, lose or enhance characteristics by humans carefully choosing their ‘partners’.