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UNITY TEST 5 STUDY GUIDE Flashcards

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Ecology

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The study of interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment

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What are the levels of life

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Biosphere
Ecosystem
Community
Population 
Organism
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Interdependence

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All organisms depend on one another to survive through interactions

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Ecological models

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A representation of the components of an ecological system

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Biosphere

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The most inclusive level of life, sorounds in the atmosphere

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Ecosystems

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The smaller units of the biosphere including all organisms and the non living environment found in a particular place

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Communities

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All of the interacting organisms living in an area, specifically in an ecosystem

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Population

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Including all members of one species that live in an ecosystem

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Organism

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The individual organism in a population

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Habitat

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The place where an organism lives

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Niche

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The way of life of a species in its environment

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Abiotic Factors

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Non-living components of an environment

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Biotic Factors

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Living components of an environment

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Consumers

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All animals who consume other organisms or organic wastes

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Producers

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Organisms that produce their own food (Plants)

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Carnivores

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Animals that eat other consumers

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Herbivores

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Animals that eat plants

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Detritivores

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Animals that feed off of the garbage in an environment

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Omnivores

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Animals that eat both plants and animals

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.Biomass

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the total mass of organisms in a given area or volume.

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Carbon cycle

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The recycling of carbon in the environment

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Nitrogen cycle

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The cycle of nitrogen being recycled throughout the environment

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Nitrogen fixation

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The process of converting N2 gas to nitrate

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Trophic levels

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Indication of the organism’s position in a sequence of energy transfers

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Biogeochemical cycles

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Non living substances passing through the environment

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Water cycle

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The cycle in which water evaporates and returns to the environment

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Phosphorus cycle

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The movement of Phosphorus from environment to organisms and then back to the environment (Phosphorus is essential to form bones, teeth, and parts of molecules such as DNA and RNA )

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Carrying Capacity

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the number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation

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How many people live in developing countries

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80 percent

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How many people live in developed countries

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20 percent

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Animal and plant adaptations

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Natural adaptations of animals and plants to help them survive

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Interspecific competition

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A type of interaction in which two or more species use the same limited recourse

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Competitive exclusion

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When two organisms have control over one resource or share one resource

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Parasitism

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When one organism benefits while the other is harmed

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Mutualism

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Both organisms benefit

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Symbiosis

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A close long term relationship between two organisms.

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Commensalism

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One organism benefits but the other organsim is neither helped nor harmed

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Primary succession

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The development of a community in an area that has not supported life previously

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Secondary Succession

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The sequential replacement of species that follows disruption of an existing community

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Climax community

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The final sustainable community

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Pioneer species

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The species or organisms that predominate early in succession

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Biome

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Very large climatic regions that contain a number of smaller but related ecosystems within them

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Earth’s Layers

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Crust 
Upper Mantle 
Mantle
Outer Core
Core
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Biodiversity

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the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.

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Tundra

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A cold treeless biome characterized by Permafrost (A permanent frozen layer of soil under the surface

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Taiga

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A forested biome dominated by coniferous trees and characterized by long winters and short summers

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Temperate Forest

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Forests that occur in eastern North America and central Europe and are characterized by distinct seasons and moderate climates and coniferous tress and deciduous trees

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Tropical Forest

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Forests that occur near the center of the equator and are some of the most biologically diverse biomes on the planet, characterized by rainy seasons and dry seasons

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Temperate Grasslands

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Grasslands that are too dry to support trees and are characterized by dry climates

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Savana

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Tropical or temperate grasslands that have scattered deciduous trees and shrubs

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Desert

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Biomes characterized by rolling sand dunes and almost no trees

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Chaparral

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A biome that is dominated by dense spiny shrubs and has scattered clumps of coniferous trees

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Photic

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The part of the ocean that recieves sunlight is the photic zone

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Aphotic

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The zone where sunlight cannot penetrate and photosynthesis is no longer possible

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Benthic

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The ocean bottom

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Pelagic

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the open ocean

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Intertidal zone

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The point where the ocean meets land

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Neritic zone

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the neritic zone is the most productive zone in the ocean and is located in mostly shallow water where photosynthesis is possible

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Oceanic

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The oceanic zone encompasses the deepest parts of the ocean zone an d contains few specie than the neritic zone does

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Estuaries

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A mix of salt and freshwater

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Eutrophic Lakes

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Freshwater bodies of water and are rich in organic matter and vegetation

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Oligotrophic lakes

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Contain little organic matter and the water is much clearer

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Rivers/streams

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A body of freshwater that flows down a gradual slope

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Wetlands

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Areas of land that are covered with freshwater for at least part of each year

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Extinction

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The death of every member in a species

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Endangered

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In threat of extinction

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Biological Magnification

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The rising threat of a chemical the farther up it moves in the food chain

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Keystone species

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A species that effects many others

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Bioindicator

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Animals that are very sensitive to biological change

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Chlorofluorocarbons

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CFS, destructive chemicals that affect the ozone

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Smog

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Water mixed with chemicals

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Pollution

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Substances that harm the environment

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Biodiversity hotspots

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Regions that contain 44 percent of all species of vascular plants and 35 percent of other four groups of invertebrates

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