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members of an ecosystem
Producer
Primary consumer
Secondary consumer
Tertiary consumer
trophic levels
Primary: consumer
Secondary: primary consumer
Third: secondary consumer
fourth: tertiary consumer
photosynthesis
when a plant uses sunlight to produce energy/food
carbon cycles
Carbon dioxide gas + water + sunlight - glucose + oxygen gas
Glucose + oxygen gas - Carbon dioxide gas + water + energy
Water cycle
Evaporation - condensation - precipitation
biotic factors of influence
Predator population increases prey population decreses
Abiotic factors of influence
not enough sunlight no flowers
extinct
No more of a species
endagered
Almost extinct
invasive species
a species that does not belong where it is has no predators eats everything
extripated
no more in a certain country
human impacts to the enviroment
Good: Planting trees, Fertilizing
Bad: Clear cutting, pollution
mutualism
Mutualism: One species lives on another and both benefit
commensalism
Commensalism: one benefits the other doesn’t suffer or gain
Parasitism
living on another organism only one benefits
predator prey
predator eats prey
carrying copasity
The number of organisms that can be held within an area
limiting factor
conditions that limit the growth of the population
ecolodgy
the study of organisms
ecosystems
a system with living organisms and nonliving
population
a group of individuals within the same species in an area
community
an interaction between different organism that live in the same area
niche
is the role a species has in its enviroment
puresubstance
made of one type of atom