Ecology

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Ecosystem

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Group of communities interacting with each other and the non-loving parts of their environment

Healthy Ecosystem=self sufficient environment

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Nate Carroll

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Ecology

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Study of the relationship between living things and their environments

Ecologists study animals and their envorrionments

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Interact

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Process of organism acting upon one another or on the nonliving environment

Indirect or Direct

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Deforestation

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process whereby natural forests are cleared through logging and or burning

Clear Cutting a forest

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Population

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Group of the same kind of organism

School of fish

Humans

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Community

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All the populations that live in an area

Deer, grass, bears, mice, trees, birds,

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Biodiversity

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Many different species

High biodiversity=more stable and healthy environment

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Habitat

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Place where organisms live

Houses for people

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Niche

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Role or job of an organism in a habitat

Bears eat the deer to keep the population in balance

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Host

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The organism the is effected in a engine way by a parasite

Tape worm

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Scavenger

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Consumers that eat dead animals

Vultures

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Decomposer

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Organism that breaks down wastes or remains of other organisms

Worms, bacteria

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Carrying capacity

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Largest population that can be supported in an area due to limiting factors

Deer population increases so wolf population increases

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Primary consumer

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A consumer that eats a producer or autotroph

Usually a herbivore

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Secondary consumer

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A consumer that eats a primary consumer

Usually a carnivore

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Tertiary consumer

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This consumer is at the top of the food chain

Usually an omnivore

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Food chain

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Show how energy from food moves trough a population of organism
Rabbit eats grass then a hawk eats the rabbit

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Food web

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Shows how food chains are related

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Energy pyramid

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Shows how energy moves through an ecosystem

Only 10% of energy is transferred between the tropic levels and the other 90% is used for life in the prey

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Competition

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Struggle for resources

Animals compete for food

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Symbiosis

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Close relationships between different species

Deer get eaten by wolfs

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Predation

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When an organism kills another organism and eats it for energy

Wolf killing ant eating a deer

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Predator

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The animal that eats another animal lower than it on the food chain

Wolf(predator) eats Deer(prey)

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Prey

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The organism that is eaten by the predator who is higher on the food chain Deer(prey) is eaten by wolf(predator)

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Limiting factor

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Condition in an environment that put limits on the size of a population can grow too Food

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Producer

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Makes its own food usually from the sun Autotroph

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Consumer

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Consumes it food Heterotroph

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Herbivore

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Consumer that only eats plants Rabbit

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Carnivore

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Consumer that only eats meat Wolf

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Omnivore

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Consumer that eats both plants and animals Bear

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Mutualism

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Both organisms benefit

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Commensalism

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One organism benefits and the other doesn't

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Parasitism

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One organism benefits and the other is harmed Tape worm and human

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Parasite

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Organism that attack other organisms but don't usually kill there "host" Tape worm

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Host

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The organism that is preyed upon by the parasite Human is hosted by a tape worm

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Introduced species

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A non-native species that is introduced into an environment Usually an animal that doesn't have a predator in that environment

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Autotroph

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An organism that creates its own food Plants

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Heterotroph

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An organism that eats its food Rabbit

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Biotic

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An organism that is living Deer

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Abiotic

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An organism that is not living Rock

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Lichen

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simple slow-growing plant that typically forms a low crustlike, leaflike, or branching growth Grows on rocks walls trees

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Global warming

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increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide and other pollutants. Heating of the polar ice caps

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Greenhouse effect

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Caused by increased levels of carbon and other greenhouse gasses Heating of the atmosphere is causing the polar ice caps to melt

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Ecological succession

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process of change in the species structure of a community over time