Ecology-study of interactions between living things in their enviorment – Flashcards
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Organism -
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Individual living thing such as an alligator
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Population
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Group of same species that live together in one area (alligators,birds,frogs
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Community
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Group of the different species that live in the same area
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Ecosystem
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Living and nonliving things in an area
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Biome
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Regional or global community of organisms
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Biotic factors
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Living things
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Abiotic factors
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Non-living things
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Biodiversity
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The variety of living things in an environment
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Producer
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Get their energy from non living things(sun)
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Consumers
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Get their energy from living organisms
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Ecology
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Study of interactions between living things and their environments
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Chemosynthesis
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Process by which organisms form carbohydrates using chemicals rather than light
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Food chain
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Sequence that links species by feeding their relationship
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Herbivore
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Plant eaters
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Carnivores
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Meat eaters
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Omnivores
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Plant and meat eaters
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Dettritvores
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Organisms that eat dead organic matter
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Deconposers
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Dettritvotes that break down organic matter into simpler compounds
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Specialist
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Consumer that primarily eats one organism
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Generalist
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Consumers that have a large variety in their diet
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Trophic levels
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Level of nourishment in a food chain
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Food web
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Model that shows the complex network of feeding relationships
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Nitrogen fixation
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Certain types of bacteria convert nitrogen into nitrates.which are used by plants to Make amino acids
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Biomass
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Measure of the total mass of organisms in a given area
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Habitat
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All the biotic and abiotic factors that a species needs to survive ,stay healthy,and reproduce
