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Is an individual living thing

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Organism

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Is a group of the same species that lives in one area

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Population

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Is a group of different species that live together in one area

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Community

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Includes all of the organisms as well , as the climate , soil , water , rocks and other nonliving things given in an area

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Ecosystem

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Is a major regional or global community of organisms characterized by the climate conditions and plant communities that thrive there

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Biome

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What includes every ecosystem?

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Both living and nonliving things

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What are biotic factors

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Living things

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4 examples of biotic factors

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Plants
Animals
Fungi
Bacteria

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What are the abiotic factors?

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Nonliving things

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5 examples of abiotic factors

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Moisture
Temperature
Wind
Sunlight
Soil
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Is the assortment, or variety , of living things in an ecosystem

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Biodiversity

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Have more biodiversity than other locations in the world , but are threatened by human activities

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Rain forest

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Is a species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem

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Keystone species

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14
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Keystone species form and maintain :

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A complex web of life

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Life in an ecosystem requires..

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A source of energy

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16
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Provide energy for other organisms in an ecosystem

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Producer

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Is the study of relationships among organisms and their environment

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Ecology

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Provide energy for other organisms in an ecosystem

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Producers

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Get their energy from non-living resources

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Producers

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20
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How are called the producers

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Autotrophs

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Are organisms that get their energy by eating other living or once-living resources

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Consumers

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Consumers are also called:

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Heterotrophs

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In most producers uses sunlight as an energy source

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Photosynthesis

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In prokaryote producers uses chemicals as an energy resources

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Chemosynthesis

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Model the flow of energy in an ecosystem

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Food chains and food webs

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Is a model that shows a sequence of feeding relationships

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Food chain

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Links species by their feeding relationships

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Food chain

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Follows the connection between one producer and a single chain of consumers within an ecosystem

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Food chain

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Eat only plants

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Herbivores

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Eat only animals

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Carnivores

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Eat both plants and animals

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Omnivores

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Eat dead organic matter

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Detritivores

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Are detritivores that break down organic matter into simpler compounds

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Decomposers

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Are consumers that primarily eat one specific organism or a very small number of organisms

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Specialist

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Are consumers that have a varying diet

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Generalists

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Are the nourishment levels in a food chain

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Trophic levels

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Are herbivores that eat producers

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Primary consumers

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Are carnivores that eat herbivores

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Secondary consumers

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Are carnivores that eat secondary consumers

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Tertiary consumers

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Such as humans that eat both plants and animals

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Omnivores

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A complex way of feeding relationships

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Food web

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The distribution of energy and matter in an ecosystem

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Pyramid model

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compare energy used by producers and other organisms on trophic levels

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Energy pyramids

44
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About how many percent do it is lost in the atmosphere by the heat

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90 percent so we only have 10

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Is a measure of the total dry mass of organisms in a given area

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Biomass

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Shows the numbers of individual organisms at each trophic level in an ecosystem

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Pyramid of numbers

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Is all aspects of the area in which an organism lives

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Habitat

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What include a habitat

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Biotic factors

Abiotic factors

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Includes all of the factors that a species needs to survive , stay healthy, and reproduce

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Niche

50
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What includes a niche

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Food
Water
Behavior
Oxygen

51
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Occurs when 2 species use resources in the same way

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Competition

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Keeps 2 species from occupying the same niche

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Competitive exclusion

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Are species that occupy similar niches but live in different geographical regions

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Ecological equivalents

54
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Two important ways in which organisms interact

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Competition and predation

55
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Occurs when 1 organism captures and eats another

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Predation

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Both organism benefit

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Mutualism

57
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The 3 types of symbiotic relationships

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Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism

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One organism wins , the other is unharmed

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Commensalism

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One organism benefit and the other is harmed

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Parasitism

60
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What is biology

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The study of life

61
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4 characteristics of all living things

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Need of energy
Response to environment
Reproduction and development
Cells

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