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Ecology |
Scientfic studyof hoe things interact with each other and their evviroment |
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Ecoysystem |
all the living and non-living things that interact in a particular enviroment |
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Biotic factor ( or just Biotic) |
The living thing in an ecoysystem |
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Abiotic factor ( or just Abiotic) |
The non-living physical and chemical parts of an ecoysystem |
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Cycle |
A serious of events or actions that repeat regulary; a continual physical and chemical process in which one material contiually change locations and / or forms |
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water cycle |
the continous movement of water through earth, its atmosphere, and the living things in earth |
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Nitogen cycle |
the continous movement of nitrogrn through earth, its atmosphere, and the living things on earth |
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Carbon cycle |
the continous movement of carbon through earth, its atmoshphere, and the living things on earth |
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Energy Pryamid |
a model used to show the amount of energy available to living things in an ecoysystem ( the amount of available energy decreases as it goes up) |
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producer |
an organism in a food chain that captures light or chemicla energy from the enviroment and stores is as chemical energy in food |
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consumer |
a living thing that gets its energy by eating other living things in a food chain |
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herbivores |
animals that eat plants |
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carnivore |
animals that eat only other animals |
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omnivore |
animals that only eat both animals and plants |
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decomposer |
a living thing that gets its energy by breaking down remains of luving things that have died |
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scavenger |
a consumer that eats dead anilmals |
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detrivore |
help to break down dead organic matter by breakingit down into smaller pieces |
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food chain |
sequnce of whom eats in the community to obtain nutrution |
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food web |
model used th show a feeding relationship in which many food chains overlap in an ecoysystem. Made up of interconnected food chains. ( shows the transfer of energy) |
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what are the 6 land biomes and give a describtion of each |
taiga: evergren trees grown, where ground is not frozen Tundra:small plants, soil below frozen desert: plants adapted to survive in dry soil grassland:transition between th biomes temperture forest: contains many trees with leaves that change colors troplical forset:warm enough that trees stay green the entire year |
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biome |
A region on earth that has a particular climate and certain types of plants |
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coniferous |
cone-bearing tree that DOES NOT loose leaves |
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Decidouous |
a tree that does loose their leaves |
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Estruary |
where a river and ocean meet/ feed in to each other |
