Ecosytems Flashcards

(39 cards)

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Define Abiotic Factors

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Refers to those environental factors that are not alive, the non compounds of the enviroment e.x water, sunlight

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Photo synthesis equation

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CO2 + H2O -> O2 + C6 H12 O6 (glucose)

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Define detrivore

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Animals that release enzymes to break down organic matter to eat ex. Dung beatle

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How does temperature effect plants

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Effects rate of plant growth, metabolic rate of organism and resistance in organisms.

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What level on the pH scale is acid

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0

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Define commensalism

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One partner benefits and the other is not affected (+,0)

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Define Biotic factors

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Enviromental factors which are alive

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Define Mutualism

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Both partners benefit from the relationship (+,+)

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Respiration equation

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O2 + C6 H12 O6 (glucose) -> CO2 + H2O

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Water effects on ecosystems ?

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  • Solubility of dissolved oxygen
  • rate of plant growth
  • metabolic rate of organisms
  • resistense in organismic
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What can you use to measure turbudity of water

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Sechi Disk

-a string you lower into the water and mark when you up

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Define intercompetition

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Competition between different species

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At level on the pH scale is neutral

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16
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What symbiotic relationship is represented by this +,-

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Parasitism

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+,+

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mutualism

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+,-

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Name 4 things animals compete for

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Food
Water
Space
Mates

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What is a nich?

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A nich is the position that a living thing occupies in a community

  • animals overlapping niches compete
  • competition results in winners and losers
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What do plants fight for

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  • light
  • minerals
  • water
  • space
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What species is the human

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What is the study of ecosystems?

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Name the three types of organisms found in ecosystems inorder of the food chain

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Producers -> consumers -> decomposers

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Plant organisation flow chart

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Molecules -> cell -> organisms -> population -> biosphere

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What is an autotroph

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organism that can make their own food

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What is a Hetotroph
An organism that cannot make its own food and has to eat food to survive
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Flow chart for phoem
Nutrients -> translocation -> phloem
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Flow chart of xylem
Water -> transpiration -> xylem
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Where does transipration occur
In the xylem | And it involves water
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What effects transipration
Humidity Wind Temperature Type if plant
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What is tropism
A growth movement in response to a stimulus. | Plants grow towards or away from a stimulus
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what is a growth movement towards a stimulus
Possitive tropism
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What is growth away from a stimulus
Negetive tropism
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Plants response to light
Phototropism
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Plants response to water
Hydrotropism
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Plants response to gravity
Geotropism
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What are auxins
Hormone of plant produced in the tip of the shoot. When they sense a light source they move away from it. This causes cells on the other side of the plant to move and grow towards the light.
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Name types of Symbiotic Interactions
- Predation / parasitism - mutulism - commensalism
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What is predation/ parasitism?
One partner benefits from the relationship and the other is harmed (+,-)
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What level on the pH scale is Alkaline Base
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