Flashcards in Ecology Unit Test Deck (51)
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What is the role of the decomposer in an ecosystem
Decomposers breakdown dead plants and animals they also break down the waste of other organisms
If decomposers weren't an ecosystem the plants would not get essential nutrients and dad matter and waste would pileup
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What two organisms are mainly known to be decomposers
Bacteria and fungi
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Name the type of ecological relationship
As insects fly around and feed off of the nectar of flowers they carry pollen from one flower to another helping the plants reproduce
Mutualism
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Heartworm is an animal that can live in the heart of dogs the warm gets nutrition but the leaves the dog malnourished
Parasitism
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Algae lives on the back of some turtles. The algae get transportation and a place to live the algae have no effect on the turtle
Commensalism
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At night I was hunting mice birds and other small animals
Predation
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Termites eat I'm glad but they cannot digest it themselves. Organisms living inside the termite guy just the parts of the wood for them this provides food for both organisms
Mutualism
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What is the word for organisms ecological roles or job within an ecosystem
Trophic level
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A snake lives in the forest eat small animals such as birds and lays eggs in nests that are buried in the ground identify the snake habitat
The rain forest
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Biotic or abiotic?
Water
Abiotic
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Biotic or abiotic?
Nitrogen in a living organism
Abiotic
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Biotic or abiotic?
Soil
Abiotic
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Biotic or abiotic?
Animals
Biotic
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Biotic or abiotic?
Trees?
Biotic
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Biotic or abiotic?
Nitrogen in the air
Abiotic
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Biotic or abiotic?
Bacteria
Biotic
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Biotic or abiotic
Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere
Abiotic
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Biotic or abiotic?
Fungi
Biotic
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What organisms are responsible for removing carbon out of the atmosphere and how?
Trees and plants use photosynthesis to chemically convert the carbon dioxide to carbon-based sugar molecules
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During what processes carbon dioxide removed from the atmosphere?
Photosynthesis
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Define evaporation
Changing of the liquid into a gas often under the influence of heat
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Define condensation
The conversion of a vapor or gas to a liquid
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Define pprecipitation
Water that falls to the ground as rain snow etc.
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Define collection/run off
Water from rain or snow that flows over the surface of the ground into streams
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Define transpiration
Transpiration is the process where plants absorb water to the roots and then give off water vapor through pores in their leaves an example of transpiration is going to plant absorbs water in its roots
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What is the difference between evaporation and transpiration
If operation occurs in water becomes paper from bodies of water transportation occurs when water leaves a plant as vapor
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Name a type of succession that would take place it's a fire destroyed forest
Secondary succession
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Name a type of succession that would take place is a volcano erupted
Primary succession
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Describe the 10% rule
It states that energy when passing from prey to predator is only concert rated at about 10%. For example, when do you eat the grass only 10% of the energy that the grass received from the sun is passed onto the dear
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