Ecosystems Flashcards

(32 cards)

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Habitat

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Biotic factrse

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Species

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The lowest level of clallification

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Adaptations

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A change in an organism to better fit an ecosystem

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Population

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A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time

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5
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Niche

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The job that an organism has in an ecosystem

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Biome

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Life

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7
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Deciduous forests

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The deciduous forest has for three seasons

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Desert

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The desert covers about 1/5 of earth

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Taiga

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The taiga is the largest land biome on earth

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10
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Tropical rainforest

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Hot moist biome found near earth equator

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Grassland

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Grasslands are characterized as having grasses as the dominant vegetation

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Tundra

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Type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons

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13
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Abiotic

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A non-living thing

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14
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Biotic

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A living thing

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15
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Ecosystem

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Is all the living thing form plants and animals to microscopic organisms that share an environment

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Community

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An interacting group of various species in a common location

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Producer

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Are organisms that make their own food

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Consumers

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Are organisms of an ecological food chain which receive energy by consuming other organisms

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Herbivore

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Is a type of animal that eats plants-like organisms

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Carnivore

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Is an animal that eats a diet consisting mainly of meat

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Omnivore

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A kind of animal that eats either other animals or plants

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Decomposer

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Are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms

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Primary producer

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Any green plant of microorganisms that can convert light or chemical energy into organic matter

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Primary consumer

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A carnivore that eats an plant

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Tertiary consumer
A carnivore at the top of the food chain that eats other carnivore
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decomposer
Person or thing that decomposer
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10% rule
A little bit of energy going to the animal that eats it
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Organisms
A form of live compared life composed of mutually interdependent parts that maintain various vital processes
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Ecosystems
Is all the living thing from plants and animals to microscopic organisms that share an environment
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Mutualism
Symbiosis that is benefited to both organisms involved
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Commensalism
Relationship between two species of plants animals or fungus which lives with on or in another without danger to either
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Parasitism
Organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another