Ecology Flashcards

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Ecosystem

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all living and non living things in a area

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Jeremy

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Ashby

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Ecology

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The study of all living and non living things

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Deforestation

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Cutting down of lots of trees in an area

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Population

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The amount of species in an area

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Community

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all the living things in a area and that can interact with each other

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Biodiversity

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Living things in an area with differences

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Habitat

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Where a certain species lives

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Niche

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What job or role a animal plays in the environment

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Host

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The animal infected by the parasite

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Scavenger

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An animal that eats recently dead animals or eats the left overs

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Decomposer

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The end of the line everything that’s died Goes here and gets recycled

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Carrying Capacity

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The max animals that a area can handle of animals

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Interact

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The living things and dead things interacting for the benefits or not

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Primary consumer

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Eats the grass

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Secondary consumer

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Eats the animal that eats the grass

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Tertiary consumer

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Eats the 2nd consumer

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Food chain

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What animal eats what then what gets eaten by what

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Food web

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The energy transferred to the animal that ate it

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Energy pyramid

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Showing the energy as it moves along the food chain

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Competition

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When two or more animals compete with each other for food and resources

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Symbiosis

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close relationship between diff species

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Predation

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the preying of one animal on others.

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Predator

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An animal that’s eats smaller prey animals

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Prey
Is food for preds | Is a primary consumer
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Limiting factors
Conditions in an environment puts a limit on the size the population can grow to Ex common living factors such as food preds habitat
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Producer
Makes food by using the sun
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Consumer
Eats the producer | 2nd consumer eats the primary consumer
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Herbivore
Eats grass
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Carnivore
Eats meat only
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Omnivore
Eats plants and animals
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Mutualism
Both benefit
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Commensalism
Only one benefits
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Parasitism
One benefits and one gets harmed
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Parasite
A animal/bacteria gets inside an animal and gets it slowly benefiting itself and killing the host
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Introduced species
A animal that was introduced and is hurting the environment greatly
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Autotroph
Makes its own food
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Heterotroph
Eats to get food
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Biotic
Living
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Abiotic
Non living
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Global warming
The earth is heating up and melting ice
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Green house effect
The heat hits the ground and some stays the rest goes back into the sky
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Ecological succession
is the observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time.