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49 Cards in this Set
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Organism |
Any individual form of life |
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Population |
A group of organisms of the same species living together |
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Community |
Groups of different populations living together in same area at same time |
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Ecosystem |
All biotic and abiotic factors in the same area at the same time |
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Biosphere |
All ecosystems on earth |
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Abiotic |
Nonliving |
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Biotic |
Living |
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Examples: Sunlight Soil Water Rocks |
Abiotic |
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Examples: Predators Prey Disease Symbiosis |
Biotic |
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Producer (______) = plants |
Autoroph |
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Consumer (______) |
Heterotroph |
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only eats plants |
Herbivore |
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only eats meats |
Carnivore |
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Eats plants and animals |
Omnivore |
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Feeds on dead animals and plants |
Scavenger |
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Organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms (ex: worm, bacteria, fungi) |
Decomposer |
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Symbiosis |
Two different organisms living and interacting closely together |
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Mutualism |
Both organisms benefit (+,+) |
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Parasitism |
One organisms benefits while other suffers (+,-) |
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Predator |
An individual that consumes another indi |
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Predation |
The act of a predator capturing prey |
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Producers |
Get their energy from the sun |
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Consumers |
Get energy from other living things |
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Decomposers |
Get their energy from dead/decaying things |
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Energy transfer |
The movement of energy around an ecosystem by biotic and abiotic means organisms in a food chain provide energy for other organisms |
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Food chain |
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Food web |
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Feeding position that an organism has in a food chain |
Trophic levels |
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Shows relationship between organisms at different levels, their biomass, and energy transfer |
Pyramid |
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____ is also greatest at bottom, only 10% is passed on each time |
Energy |
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_____, at the bottom if the pyramid, have the most energy |
Producers |
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Adds water as vapor (a gas) to the atmosphere, needs hear (like sweating, puddles disappearing) |
Evaporation |
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Evaporation through plants |
Transpiration |
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Water vapor cools in atmosphere, forming liquid water again (water droplets, forms clouds, or water on outside of your glass) |
Condensation |
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Precipitation |
Liquid water leaves the atmosphere in the form of rain, snow, hail, or sleet |
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Water cycle |
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______ absorb CO2 from atmosphere and water from soil to make the food they need. This process is ________. |
Plants & photosynthesis |
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The food is C6H12O6, or ______ (sugar) |
Glucose |
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________ eat the plants to get the C they need, then breathe it out as CO2 (or return to soil when die = decomposition). This process is ______. |
Animals & Respiration |
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When a plant dies, the carbon can turn into _____ _______ (like coal and oil) over millions of years. Humans burn _____ _______ and release tons of carbon into the atmosphere. |
Fossil fuels |
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_____ ______ is a Greenhouse Gas, and traps heat in the atmosphere. |
Carbon dioxide |
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But, because of humans _____ _____ ______, there is much more carbon in the atmosphere than there should be. |
Burning fossil fuels |
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When organic things are burned and give off carbon dioxide. |
Combusion |
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A _____ _____ _____ in the earth's climate, especially due to an increase in the average atmosphere temperature. |
long time change |
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Nitrogen cycle |
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Bacteria in soil change nitrogen from atmosphere into a form that plants can use call ammonia |
Nitrogen Fixation |
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_____ get their nitrogen from eating plants and other animals that have eaten plants; get rid of nitrogen through waste. |
Animals |
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Part of amino acids, which makes _______ (provide structure, enzymes) |
Protein |
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Nitrogen is also a component of _____, which is our genetic material. |
DNA |
