Ecology Vocab

Question 0

Biotic

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Describes factors in an environment that are associated with living organisms.

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abiotic

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Describes factors in an environment that are not, and have never been,living, including temperature, light, and precipitation.

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Predator

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any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.

a predatory person.

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Biome

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A large region classified by the interaction of the living organisms , climate, and geographical features

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Ecosystem

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Community of various organisms interacting with each other within a particular physical environment

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Organism

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Individual biological entity that performs basic life functions, such as growing, metabolizing, and reproducing.

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Predation

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a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds on others.

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Symbiosis

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The close ecological relationship between organisms.

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Parasitism

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Symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits, while the other species is harmed, but not killed.

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Mutualism

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A symbiotic in which both species benefit

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Commensalism

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A symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits, while the other species does not benefit but is not harmed.

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Ecology

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Study of how living organism interact with each other within a particular physical environment.

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Biodiversity

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The assortment of species on earth; within and between ecosystems; and the variation in the genetic composition of a species

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Invasive species

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A nonnative species that enters a new area, causing harm to the native species and environment, economy, or human health

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Nonnative species

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A species considered to be not naturally found in an environment

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Sustainability

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Ability to meet a community’s present needs without affecting future generations

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Trade off

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Good for a bad

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Decomposers

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Organisms that obtain energy by eating dead or decaying organisms or waste from living organisms

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Fishery

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Industry that catches or raises a specific type of fish or shellfish to be processed or sold.

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Zoo plankton

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Plankton that derive energy from the food that they eat, often other plankton.

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Phytoplankton

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Plankton capable of photosynthesis

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Plankton

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Any drifting or aquatic organism that lives, at least during the planktonic stage of its life, in open waters.

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Herbivore

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Eats plants

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Carnivore

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Eats meat

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Omnivore

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Eats both meat and leaves

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Producer

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Something that makes its own food. ( plant) photosynthesis

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Consumer

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Something that gets energy from a producer

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Energy pyramid

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Diagram that shows how much energy is available for each level or organism.

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Food web

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Diagram of relationships between interacting food chains within an ecosystem, showing how much each organism derives energy for survival

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Food chain

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Follow one path of energy for survival, rather than many like the food web.

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Carrying capacity

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The largest population of a species that an ecosystem can support long term based on the resources available

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Exponential curve

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- a graph of an exponential function graph, graphical record - a visual representation of the relations between certain quantities plotted with reference to a set of axes

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Growth rate

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the rate of increase in size per unit time

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Limiting factor

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A component in a system that prevents further change in a particular variable

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Density dependent factors

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A factor, such as amount of food per individual, that changes the population density changes

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Density independent factor

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A factor that is not directly affected by population density, such as the effect of a natural disaster