intro to envi sci Flashcards

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What is environmental science?

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It is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of the environment

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What is ecology?

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The study of the relationship between the organisms and environment

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Organism modify the environment

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Environment shape the organism

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4
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Focus of the ecology include:

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Organisms, population, communities, ecosystem, and biosphere

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Areas of ecology

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Organism/species, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere

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What is organism/species

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Organisms that are capable of interbreeding

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What is population

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Group of organism that are living in the same area at the same time

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What is community

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Group of population living in the same area at the same time

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What is ecosystem

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Group of community that interacts with an abiotic factor

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What is biosphere

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Area in the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere where life exists

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2 components of ecosystem

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Biotic factor and abiotic factor

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What is biotic factor

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Living things; plants, animals

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What is abiotic factor

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Non living things; water, nutrients, rock, minerals

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Law of tolerance

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States that each population has a minimum and maximum tolerance level of each abiotic factor

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Law of limiting factor

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States that too much or too little of an abiotic factor may influence the population growth even though all the other abiotic factors fall within the range tolerated by the organism

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2 types of ecosystem

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Terrestrial ecosystem and aquatic ecosystem

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What is terrestrial ecosystem

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Land based ecosystem; forest, grassland, tundra, desert

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What is aquatic ecosystem

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Present in a body of water

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2 types of aquatic ecosystem

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Freshwater ecosystem and marine ecosystem

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Functions of ecosystem

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Regulation of essential ecological processes which supports life systems and
renders stability.
Nutrient cycling between biotic and abiotic components.
Maintenance of balance among difference trophic levels in the ecosystem
Cycling of minerals through the biosphere
Synthesis of organic components which involve the exchange of energy

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3 types of species interaction

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Symbiotic, competition, predation

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3 types of symbiotic

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Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism

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2 types of competition

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interspecific and intraspecific

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Least inclusive to most inclusive ecology

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Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism