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Ecology Vocab Flashcards

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Where an organism lives

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Habitat

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All living things and non living parts

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Ecosystem

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2
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Role an animal has

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Niche

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Both benefit from each other

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Mutualism

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One benefits and one is neutral

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Commensalism

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One benefits while one suffers

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Parasitism

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6
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Makes own energy

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Autotroph

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7
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Energy obtained from other organisms

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Heterotroph

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8
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Position in a food chain

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Tropic layer

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9
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Linear arrangement of how energy flows through an ecosystem

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Food chain

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10
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Multiple food chains

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Food web

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11
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A group of living populations

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Community

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12
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Group of same species

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Population

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13
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A factor that restricts the growth of a community

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Limiting factor

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14
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Ability to survive when subjects to a biotic factor or abiotic factor

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Tolerance

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15
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Converts atmospheric nitrogen to useable nitrogen

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Nitrofication

16
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Converts useable nitrogen to atmospheric nitrogen

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Denitrification

17
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The change in an ecosystem over time due to changing biotic and abiotic factors

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Succession

18
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Establishment of new community which has never housed life

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Primary succession

19
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Succession that occurs on land which once had life (after natural disaster)

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Secondary succession

20
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Stable mature community after succession has taken place

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Climax community

21
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Areas with similar climate

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Biome

22
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Lots of evergreen trees

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Taiga

23
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Indiana

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Temperate forest

24
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Highest biodiversity due to warm temperature and high precipitation

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Tropical rainforest

25
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Light reaches water

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Photic zone

26
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Light does not reach deep water

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Aphotic zone

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As the population gets larger, the rate of growth increases

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Exponential growth

28
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Number of organisms an environment can support forever

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Carrying capacity

29
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Reproduces quickly and high numbers

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Rapid-life pattern

30
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Reproduces slow and low numbers

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Slow-life pattern

31
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Factors that depend on size of population

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Density dependent factors

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Factors that DO NOT depend on size of population

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Density-independent factors

33
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Number of births per 1000

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Birth rate

34
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Number of deaths per 1000

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Death rate

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