Ecology

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Ecology

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Definition: The scientific study between living things and their enviornments.
Example:A scientist observing a forest.

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Enviorment

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Definition:All living and nonliving things that surround an organism.
Example:The trees, rocks, and wildlife aroung a rabbit.

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Interact

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Definition:Living and nonliving things acting on eachother.
Example:Grass grows and rabbits eat it.

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Physical Enviornment

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Definition:Nonliving things in an enviornment.
Example:Water, Air, light, and climate.

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Biological Enviornment

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Definition:Living things in an enviornment.
Example:Plants, trees, animals.

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Ecosystem

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Definition:Made up of living and nonliving things in an enviornment that interact with eachother.
Example:Rabbits eat the grass.

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-Eco

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Definition:Enviornment.
Example:Forest.

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-System

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Definition:Set of parts that work together as a single unit.
Example:Populations

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Biosphere

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Definition:Portion of Earth in which living things exist.
Example:Ocean.

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Organism

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Definition:A complete living thing.
Example:Rabbits.

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Habitat

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Definition:Place where an organism lives.
Example:Forest.

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Niche

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Definition:The role each organism plays in its habitat.
Example: Rabbits eat grass and thier waste decomposes and puts nutrients back into the Earth.

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Population

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Definition:A group of organisms of the same species that are found together at a given place and time.
Example:Rabbits.

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Community

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Definition:All populations living together in an ecosystem.
Example:Rabbits, Foxes, Birds, Plants, etc.

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Zonation

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Definition:Changes in communities due to changes in the structure of the landscape.
Example:Evolutuion due to the filling in of a pond.

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Succession

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Definition:Process by which one community is replaced by another over time.
Example:Lichens to eventually Maple Trees.

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Climax Community

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Definition:The final community that replaces a past one.
Example:Maple trees replace lichen.

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Food Chain

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Definition:A model of the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
Example:Scud eats algae, fish eats scud, bigger fish eats smaller fish.

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Producer

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Definition:The start of the food chain, usually a plant that makes its own food.
Example:Algae.

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Primary Consumer

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Definition:An organism that eats producers.
Example:Fish eats algae.

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Secondary Consumer

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Definition:Organism that eats primary consumers.
Example:Big fish eats the small fish that ate the algae.

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Tertiary Consumer

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Definition:Organism that eats secondary producers.
Example:A bigger fish eats the big fish that ate the little fish that ate the algae.

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Decomposer

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Definition:Organisms that break down the remains or waste of other organisms.
Example:Bacteria or fungi.

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Enegy Pyramid

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Definition:Model that shows how energy moves through a food chain.
Example:Sun gives energy to plants and plants are eaten by animals and they get the energy.

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Fod Web

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Definition:A model that shows how all organisms are connected through eating each other.
Example:Foxes and Owls are connected because they both eat Chipmunks.

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Water Cycle

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Definition:Cycle in which water is re-used.
Example:Water evaporates, condenses, andpercipitates down to begin again.

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Oxygen-Carbon Dioxide Cycle

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Definition:Cycle in which O2 and CO2 is recycled.
Example:Plants exhale the oxygen that we breathe and we exhale the carbon dioxide that plants breathe.

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Nitrogen Cycle

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Definition:Cycle in which nitrogen is recycled.
Example:Organisme dies and nitrogen goes into thew ground. Other organisms will the use the nitrogen for themselves until they die and the cycle is continued.

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Predator-Prey(+-)

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Definition:Something(predator) eats something(prey) else.
Example:Is benefitial to predator but harmful to prey

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Parasitism(+-)

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Definition:One organism attaches itself to another organism and leeches of it's food and life force.
Example:Tick attaches itself to a dog.

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Mutualism(++)

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Definition:Two organisms live off of one another.
Example:Trees and fungi.

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Commenalism(+0)

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Definition:One grows on another.
Example:Vines grow on trees.