Wildlife Biology 1 Flashcards

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Ecosystem

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biological community of living and nonliving things interacting.

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Biotic Factors

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Living organism

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Abiotic Factor

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Non-living

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Organism

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Living single celled life form

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Species

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Group of organisms that have similar genetics

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Population

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Group of organisms that live in the same area

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Community

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Various species that live and interact with each other

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Habitat

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Where a population lives

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Natural Selection

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Natural evolution that selects the stronger traits to pass on

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Evolution

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Changing and growing of an organism over time

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Autotrophs

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Organism that makes its own food

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Heterotroph

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Can’t make its own food

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Primary Consumer

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Eats the producers (autotrophs)

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Secondary Consumer

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Eats the primary consumers and autotrophs

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Tertiary Consumer

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Eats only the secondary consumer

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Herbivores

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Eats only plant-life

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Omnivores

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Eats plant and animal life

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Carnivores

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Eats only animals

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Decomposers

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Breaks down and recycles nutrients

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Food Chain

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Shows the flow of nutrients through each organism

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Food Web

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Graphs the relationships between each organism

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Energy Pyramid

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Shows which organisms get more or less energy

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Carbon Cycle

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Cycle of how carbon is passed around

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Nitrogen Cycle

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Cycle of how nitrogen passes from air to soil

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Ecological Succession

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Process of a biological community evolves over time

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Primary Succession

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Regrowth after drastic even event happenes

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Secondary Succession

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Destruction of an ecosystem by a drastic event

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Pioneer Species

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First to regrow after a drastic event

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Climax Community

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Regrowth that are stable and regrow

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Ecosystem

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Plants, animals, non-living organisms, and that live together as a whole