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Interactions and Ecosystems Flashcards

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What does an ecologist study

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Ecology is the study of organisms and how they interact with the environment around them. An ecologist studies the relationship between living things and their habitats.

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What is ecology

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the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.

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What are the 4 things a living thing needs to survive?

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Exchange of Gases
Water
Nutrition
Suitable Habitat

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What is a niche

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An organisms job.

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What are the 2 different types of adaptations?

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Learned

Inherited

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What is Symbiosis?

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When two or more species live closely
together in a relationship that lasts over
time, symbiosis occurs.

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3 types of relationships organisms have

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Parasitism
Commensalism
Mutualism

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What is commensalism?

Give an example

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a relationship between 2 organism where 1 benefits and 1 isnt harmed nor benefitted

ex. a fish hiding in plants in the ocean to hide from its pedators

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What is mutualism?

Give an example.

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a relationship between 2 organisms where both benefit

ex. a bird eating the bacteria off a crocodile’s mouth

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What is parasitism?

Give an example.

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A relationship between 2 organism where 1 is harmed and the other benefits

ex. worms in a rabbit.

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What are natural resources?

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resources found in nature ( not made by man )

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What is a need vs want

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A need is something required to live ( water, food, suitable habitat, air )

A want is something that you want ( new shoes )

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What is sustainability?

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The resources from the environment are being replaced as quickly as they are being used.

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What is your ecological footprint?

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How much land is required to meet your needs

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Difference between abiotic and biotic?

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Abiotic is non living like rocks

Biotic is living things like humans

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2 main types of Niches

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Consumer

Producer

17
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3 types of Consumers

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Herbivores-eat only plants
Carnivores-eat only animals
Omnivores-eat plants and animals

18
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Decomposer vs Scavenger

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Decomposer- grow on the dead organism and absorb the nutrients like a worm

Scavenger- feed on the dead organism like a raccoon

19
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Food web vs food chain

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Food web is many food chains interlocking with each other

Food Chain is one direct relation of energy pass

20
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What is Biomass?

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The total of all organisms in an ecosystem as you go higher up the number decreases.

21
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Predator vs prey

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Predators hunt prey for a food source.

Prey mostly eat plants

22
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What are the 4 main parts of the water cycle?

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Evaporation
Precipitation
Condensation
Transpiration

23
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What is evaporation?

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The process of which liquid changes to a water vapour

24
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What is precipitation

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The water becoming rain, sleet, hail, snow and falling back down to Earth

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What is condensation?

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The process of which the water vapour changes to a liquid in the sky

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What is transpiration?

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The process of which water is taken up in the plants roots and the leaves absorb it.

27
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What is the difference between Primary Succession and Secondary Succession?

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Primary is growing an ecosystem on land that is brand new

Secondary is growing an ecosystem on land that had a natural disturbance on it.

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What is a introduced Specie

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A specie brought from a different location not meant to be there

29
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What is an endangered specie

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A specie that is dying and there are few alive

30
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4 types of ecosystem monitoring

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Physical
Chemical
Biological
Environmental

31
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What is physical monitoring

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Uses satellites to track land changes

32
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What is Environmental monitoring

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tracks changes in climate, temperature, and weather patterns

33
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What is Chemical monitoring

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assess the quality of air, water, soil

34
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What is Biological monitoring

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tracks the changes in population of organisms and species

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