Principles of Ecology

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refers to the scientific study of relationships between
organisms and their environment

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Ecology

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Everything that takes up space and has mass.

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matter

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is the material of which things are made

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matter

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is the capacity to do work, such as moving matter over a distance.

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energy

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What energy contained in moving objects

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kinetic energy

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is stored energy that is latent but available for use.

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Potential energy

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stored in the food you eat and the gasoline you put in the car, is also a potential energy that can be released to do useful work.

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Chemical energy

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describes the energy that can be transferred between objects of different temperature.

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Heat

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is the study of how energy is transferred, its rates of flow and transformation from one form or quality to another.

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Thermodynamics

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the tendency of all natural system to go from a state of order toward a state of increasing disorder

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entropy

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is the ultimate source of energy for living organisms.

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sun

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are organisms that live in severe conditions.

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Extremophiles

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energy to an ecosystem that lives in total darkness and under tremendous pressure.

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Deep-sea hydrothermal vents

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The energy source for this ecosystem is provided by inorganic molecules like hydrogen sulfide and hydrogen gas through a process called?

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chemosynthesis

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are considered to be very primitive organisms and the conditions under which they live are thought to be similar to those in which life first evolved.

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Archaea

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Most extremophiles are single celled called?

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Archaea

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is composed of particles of energy that travel as waves. It is part of the electromagnetic spectrum, the entire range of electromagnetic radiation.

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Light

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converts radiant energy into useful, high quality chemical energy in the bonds that hold together organic molecules (food!).

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Photosynthesis

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is responsible for the flow of wind, ocean currents, weather patterns and the hydrological cycle.

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Sunlight

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is the conversion of light energy into chemical bond energy. It takes place in organelles called _______.

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Photosynthesis - chloroplast

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releases chemical energy found in substances.

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Cellular respiration

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is the base of the energy dynamics of an ecosystem, how organisms share food resources..

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Photosynthesis

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refers to the amount of biological material produced in an ecosystem.

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Biomass

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strike the earth obliquely in the higher latitudes.

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Sunrays

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is responsible for the flow of wind, ocean currents, weather patterns and the hydrological cycle.

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Sunlight

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is most often defined as all organisms that are genetically similar enough to breed and produce live, fertile offspring in nature

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species

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consists of all members of a specie that live in the same area at the same time.

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population

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consists of all the populations living and interacting in an area

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biological community

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biological activity and its physical environment (water, mineral resources, air, sunlight) make up an_______?

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ecological system, or ecosystem

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is measured by the amount of biomass produced in an ecosystem

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productivity

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is the biomass produced by photosynthesis of an ecosystem

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primary productivity

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is the biomass produced by organisms that eat plants or other organisms of an ecosystem

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secondary productivity

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refers to the sequence of organisms in a community on successive trophic levels and through which energy is transferred. It is a feeding series.

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Food chain

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are several interconnected network of food chain, usually very complex involving hundreds of species

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Food web

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is the position of an organism in the food chain.

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Trophic level

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make food from simple organic matter, the largest group in the community.

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Producers or autotrophs

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obtain their food by eating other organisms

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Consumers or heterotrophs

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Organisms that eat plants

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Primary consumers or herbivores

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Organisms that eat other animals

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Secondary and tertiary consumers or carnivores

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Organisms that eat both plant and animal materials

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Omnivores

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Organisms that feed on dead organisms and wastes.

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Decomposers or saprobes

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Saprobes eat Dead animals (carrion)

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scavengers

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Organisms feces and excreted organic compounds, Dead plants, logs, stumps, fallen leaves, dead roots.

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Ditritivores

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are decomposers and completer the final breakdown and recycling of organic materials.

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Fungi and bacteria

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is formed when organisms in a community are arranged according to numbers.

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ecological pyramid

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Liquid is changed to gas (vapor) is called?

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Evaporation

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change from solid to gas is called?

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Sublimation

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gas changes to liquid id called?

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Condensation

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falling of water in any of its phases upon the surface of the earth is called?

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Precipitation