Animaly And Planty Stuff Flashcards

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What do the arrows on a food chain indicate?

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Energy transfer

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What is a food chain?

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The energy transfer as one thing eats another

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What is a food web?

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Lots of food chains overlapping.

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What does an energy pyramid show?

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The amount of energy received each time something is eaten and what kind of consumer it is.

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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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Levels of organization are

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Atoms, molecules, cell organelles, cells, tissue, organ, organ system, organism, species, population, community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere

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Difference between decomposer and scavenger

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Scavenger eats dead things decomposers decompose dead things.

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Niche means

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The role or job an animal has.

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5 characteristics of the rainforest

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  1. Very rainy
  2. warm
  3. Vines
  4. Thousands of species
  5. Deforestation
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Desert characteristics

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  1. Hot
  2. Dry
  3. Grows back slowly
  4. Lizards
  5. Bats
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Grassland

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  1. Warm
  2. Grassy
  3. Crop growth is bad for it
  4. Bison
  5. Rabbit
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Deciduous forest

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  1. Freezing winters
  2. Summer hot and humid
  3. Deforestation
  4. Bats
  5. Birds
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Taiga

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  1. Deforestation
  2. Long, cold, snowy winter
  3. Short, warm, moist summers
  4. Bears
  5. Moose
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Tundra

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  1. Drilling can be a problem
  2. Long, dark, freezing winters
  3. Short cool winters
  4. Lemmings
  5. Mosses
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Salinity?

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The amount of salt dissolved in water

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Human impact on saltwater biomes

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Human impact on freshwater biomes

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Coral reef?

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Under water stuff made from outside skeletons of tiny, soft, boiled animals called coral

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Coral reefs are abiotic

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Wetland?

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Aquatic ecosystem that have a thin layer of water covering the soil that is wet most of the time containing fresh, salt or both water.

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Factors that effect biodiversity

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Area, climate niche

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Why is biodiversity valued?

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  1. Bigger gene pool
  2. Raw materials
  3. Oxygen
  4. Food
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5 causes of extinction

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  1. Poaching
  2. Pollution
  3. Habitat destruction
  4. Earthquakes
  5. Volcanoes
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3 ways to protect biodiversity
1. Poaching laws 2. Laws 3. Captive breeding
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If one organism becomes extinct...
Other species would over populate or die out
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Keystone species
Influences the survival of other species
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Most biodiversity
Tropical rain forest
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Difference between primary and secondary succession
Primary I'd when nothing is there, secondary is where was something but it's not there anymore.
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Pioneer species
1. Lichens | 2. Mosses
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When has the equilibrium been met
Climax community
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Eutrophication
The process of a body of water becoming nutrient rich.
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Human influence on eutrophication
1. Fertilizer | 2. Pollutants