Populations And Ecosystems Flashcards

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of organisms interacting with the abiotic components of their habitat

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What is a habitat?

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The place in which an organism lives

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What is a community?

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Interacting populations of 2 or more species in the same habitat at the time

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What are abiotic factors?

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Factors that are non living
Temperature, oxygen availability

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What are biotic factors?

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Factors that are living
Predators, competition

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What are density-dependent factors?

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Factors that increase when the population increases e.g. food availability, competiton

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What are density-independent factors?

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There same regardless of the population size e,g, weather,climate

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What is intra specific competition?

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Competition between their same species

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What is interspecific competition?

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Competition between individuals of different species

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What is a population?

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A group of interbreeding individuals of the same species, found in a particular time and habitat

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What is ecology?

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The study of the relationship among
organisms and their environment

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