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14 Cards in this Set
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Ecology |
The study of the interactions among living and their surroundings |
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Community |
A group of different species that live together in one area |
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Ecosystem |
All of the organisms as well as the climate, soil, water and other nonliving things in a given area |
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Biome |
Factors that include living things |
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Biodiversity |
The variety of living things in an ecosystem |
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Keystone species |
A species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem |
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Chemosynthesis |
The process by which an organism forms carbohydrates using chemicals rather than light, as an energy source |
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Detritvores |
Organisms that eat dead organic matter |
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Specialist |
A consumer that primarily eats 1 specific organism or on a small number |
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Generalists |
Consumers that have a carrying diet |
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Trophic levels |
Levels of the food chain |
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Biogeochemical cycle |
The movement of a particular chemical through the biological and geological parts of an ecosystem |
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Nitrogen fixation |
A process when certain types of bacteria convert nitrogen into ammonia |
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Biomass |
Measure if the total fry mass if organisms in a given area |
