Ecology

Question 1

Ecology

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The study of the interactions between living things and their environment

Question 2

Population

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All the members of the same species in an area

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Community

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Contains many different
Populations

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Habitat

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The place which an organism lives

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Ecosystem

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Consists of a community of organisms and their environment

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Biosphere

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The part of the planet in which life is found

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Food web

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The series of interconnected food chains

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Food chain

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Feeding relationship between organisms through which energy is transferred

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Niche

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Specialised role in which the organism plays in the community in its ecosystem

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Qualitative survey

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Records only the presence or absence of species

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Quantitative study

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Record the number of each species

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Competition

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Occurs when two or more organism struggle for a resource that is in scare supply in a habitat

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Intra specific competition

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Takes place between members of the same species

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Inter specific competition

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Competition involving different species

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Contest competition

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Physical confrontation in which one organism gets all the resource where is the second is left without any

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Scramble competition

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All the organisms competing get some of the resource, but not all

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Predation

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Catching killing and eating of another organism

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Parasite

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Organism that feeds from and harms another organism

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Symbiosis

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Occurs when two organisms from different species live in close association where at least one of them benefits

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Pollutant/polloution

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Any harmful addition to the environment

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Conservation

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Management of organisms