Ecology

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5 reasons of animal extinction

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Invasive Species, Habitat Loss, Overuse of Species by Humans, Pollution of Soil and Water ,Climate Change

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What is an ecosystem?

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A community of abiotic and biotic factors living in a certain area.

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What is a habitat?

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The environment that an organism lives, grows and reproduces

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An organism can only live in a _____ where it's basic ____ are met

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habitat, needs

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What is my habitat?

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My Neighborhood

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Can multiple organisms live in the same habitat

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Yes

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Habitats need to provide animals with:

________ & ________

________

________ that they are adapted to

Other ________ of the _____ species to ______ & _______ with

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Food, Water, Shelter, Climate, Animals, same, mate, reproduce

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An organism needs to live in a ______ that has the ideal _________ range, amount of _________, wind, humidity etc. needed for it to survive.

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habitat, temperature, precipitation

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Flora is?

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Plants

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Fauna is?

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Wildlife (Animals)

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An Ideal geographic location is?

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Where an animal doesn't have to waste energy trying to find food or sunlight

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What type of impact can construction have on an ecosystem and animal habitat?

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It can lead to habitat loss

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Abiotic Factors

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Living

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Biotic Factors

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Nonliving

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3 types of symbiotic relationships

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Mutualism, Parasitism, Commensalism

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Commensalism

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One Helped, Other Unchanged

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Parasitism

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One Helped, One Hurt

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Mutualism

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Both helped

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What is a Niche?

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A Niche is an organism's particular role in it's own specific habitat

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What are things a niche includes?

_____ it _______

What ______ it

What it ______

What _________ it _____

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Where, Lives, eats, eats, resources, uses

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Ecological Niche Depends on:

When the animal is ______

What it ____

Where it _____

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active, eats, lives

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Amount of Parents Needed for Asexual Reproduction

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One

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True or False?

In Asexual Reproduction, the offspring look identical to their parent

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False

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What is the Male Gamete?

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Spermatazoa

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What is the Female Gamete?

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Ova

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First step of vertebrate reproduction

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Two Gametes Fuse

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2nd step of vertebrate reproduction

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Creation of Zygote (first cell)

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3rd step of vertebrate reproduction

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Zygote divides and becomes an embryo

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4th step of vertebrate reproduction

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Embryo Develops into Small animal

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5th step of vertebrate reproduction

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Animal Becomes Adult (Now capable of reproduction)

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Two Main Conditions of sexual reproduction

The two gametes must be in the same _____ at the same ______

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place, time

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Two Main Conditions of sexual reproduction

The zygote must obtain the _______ and ________ it needs to survive. It must also get the _____ and moisture needed for its development.

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nutrients, protection, warmth

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Fertilization occurs when a ___________ and an _____ of a single species ________

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spermatozoon, ovum, combine

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External ________ happens when the gametes combines _______ of the bodies of both parents

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fertilization, outside

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Most _______ animals use external fertilization

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aquatic

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Most ____ animals reproduce internally

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land

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The male and female join _______ during mating

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cloaca

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Oviparous means:

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Lays eggs

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Viviparous means:

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The fertilized ovum grows entirely in the mothers body

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Is Oviparous Internal

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Yes

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A _________ is a group of individuals of the same ________ living in the same ______ at the same ______.

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population, species, place, time

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Direct Counting:

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Count the individuals of the population directly in the territory.

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Indirect counting

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Involves identifying the number of nests/dens, or the number of traces of excrement found in the territory.

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What is this?

Involves dividing the territory into small sections and finding an average density per plot.Then, the total population size can be determined.

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Sampling Plots

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Sampling Plots

Involves ______ the territory into small ______ and finding an _____ _____ per plot. Then, the total population size can be determined.

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dividing, sections, average, density

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Capture-Recapture Sampling

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You capture the animals in a non harmful way, then mark them with a tag or collar and finally release them.

After a certain time, capture animals again. count the number of tagged animals that were recaptured. This information will help determine the size of the population.

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Oikos means...

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Household

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Logos means.....

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Study of

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Ecology is....

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The scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment.

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Organism

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Any individual of life

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Community

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several interacting Populations that inhabit a common environment and are interdependent

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Ecosystem

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Community + Abiotic Factors

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Biosphere

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Ecosystem + Land & Water

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Limiting Factors

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Temperature, Amount of Space, Amount of Food, Amount of Water, Availability of mates

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Autotroph

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Producer

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Heterotrophs

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Consumers

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Scavengers

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Prey on dead animals

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Decomposers Break down.....

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Dead and Decaying Plants and Animals

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When an organism eats another, they get __% of the energy that the organism that they ate had.

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10

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Food Webs represents a network of________ food chains

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interconnecting

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Food Chains Show _ possible path of energy.

Food Webs show ___ possible paths of energy.

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1, all