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Science Ecology Yr 9 Flashcards

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What are Biotic Factors?

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Living Organsims (Flora or Fauna)

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What are Abiotic Factors?

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non-living things in the surrounding environment

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What forms an ecosystem?

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Abiotic and Biotic Factors

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What is an ecosystem?

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When Abiotic and Biotic factors interact with each other in a self-sustaining way

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What are ecosystems made up of?

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Made up of habitats

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What do ecosystems provide?

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All needed necessities for survival. E.g: Shelter, food and water.

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What are communities?

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when two or more populations or group interact with each other

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What is a population?

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A group of organisms of the same species living in the same environment

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Give examples of Abiotic factors

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Air, wind, soil, water, currents, temperature, light, etc

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Give examples of Biotic factors

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Animals, Fungi, Bacteria, Protista, Flora, Archaea, etc

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What is matter

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Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space

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What is energy

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Energy is the capacity to do work or cause change

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What is a biosphere

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Describes the living world

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What does a biosphere include?

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Atmosphere (gas), Hydrosphere (water), and Lithosphere (land)

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What is an environment

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All factors in an organisms surroundings that affect its survival

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What is interdependence?

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Refers to the mutual reliance between organisms within an ecosystem that effects one anothers survival

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What is Parasitism?

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Relationship where one organism lives on or in another and feeds of it

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What is Commensalism?

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where one organism benefits from the interaction while the other organism is neither helped nor harmed.

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What is mutualism?

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A relationship where between organisms, both benefit from each other.

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What is a symbiotic relationship?

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A close and long-term interaction between two different species, where at least one of the organisms benefits

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What is a non-symbiotic relationship?

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interactions between species that are not close, long-term, or interdependent

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What are the 7 kinds of relationships, both non-symbiotic and symbiotic

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Mutualism, Parasitism, Commensalism, Predation, Competition, inhibition, collaboration

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What are the three symbiotic relationships

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Mutualism, Parasitism, Commensalism

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What are the three non-symbiotic relationships

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Competition, Predation, collaboration

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What is competition?

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where organisms try to use the same limited/scarce resource

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What is Predation?

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When one organism eats another to survive

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What is collaboration?

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interactions where species or individuals work together to achieve mutual benefits, improving their chances of survival or resource acquisition.

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What are the factors used to measure population size

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Births, Deaths, Immigration and Emigration

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What are some introduced species that have a detrimental impact on WA ecosystems.

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Foxes, rabbits, Cane Toad, European cockroaches etc

30
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What is the worded equation for Photosynthesis

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Carbon Dioxide + Water — (Sunlight)–> Oxygen + Glucose

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What is the worded equation for Aerobic Respiration

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Oxygen + Glucose/Energy –> Water + Carbon Dioxide

32
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What is the primary energy source for all living things

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The sun

33
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What are some Australian native adaptations to survive bushfires

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Epicormic Buds, Thick bark, automatic deployment of seeds post-fire

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What are ways that a fire can help some bush plants?

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Some plants can be revitalised, and refreshed from burning old outer parts, some release seeds, etc..

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How does energy move from producers to consumers?

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through the food chain, via consumption

36
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How is energy lost at each stage of the food chain

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Heat loss, digestion, movement, and some through excretion, etc….

37
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What is the purpose of the pyramid of biomass?

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The pyramid of biomass visualises the amount of organic matter transferred at each trophic level in an ecosystem.

38
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Name at least one invasive species and explain how it was introduced into a new ecosystem

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E.g: cane toad. It was introduced through controlling the measure of cane beetle, a pest against sugar cane

39
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Explain how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People Traditionally used fire to manage land

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They used controlled cool fire burns to promote plant growth, maintain biodiversity, revitalise plants and improve hunting grounds

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