Ecology, Ch 2

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Heterotrophs

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Consumers
Feed on other organisms

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Autotrophs

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Producers
Make their own food

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Carnivores

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Eat meat only

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Omnivores

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Eat plants and meat

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Herbivores

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Eat plants only

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Decomposers

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Feed on dead organisms and organic materials

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Food Web

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All organisms in ecosystem and shows feed relationships

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Food Chain

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3-4 organisms
shows their feed relationship

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The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment

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Ecology

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Abiotic factors

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Non-living parts of an organisms environment
Temperature, Wind

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Biosphere

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The part of the Earth that supports life

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Population

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A group of organisms living in the same place at the same time

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Biotic Factors

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Living parts of an organisms environment
Predators, Food

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The place where an organism lives out its life

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Habitat

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All the strategies and adaptations a species uses in its environment-how it meets its specific needs for food & shelter

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Niche

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An individual living thing that is made of cells, uses energy, reproduces, responds, grows, & develops

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Organism

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All the populations of different species that live in the same place at the same time

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Biological Community

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Populations of plants & animals that interact with each other in a given area & with the abiotic factors

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Ecosytem

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Give examples of an ecosystem

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Forest, meadow, Pond, Lake, Ocean, Human skin, Mouth

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List 3 symbotic relationships

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Mutualism, Commensalism, Parasitism

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Symbosis

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Living together, a close & permanent relationship between 2 different species

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Parasitism

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where 1 organism is harmed & the other benefits

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Commensalism

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when 1 benefits & the other is neither harmed nor benefited

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Mutualism

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when both benefit

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Example of parasitism

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Tick & dog
Leech & human

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Example of commensalism

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spanish moss & larger plants

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Example of mutualism

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Ants & Acacia trees

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Total weight of living matter at each trophic level

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Biomass

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As you move up in trophic levels energy is lost as ____

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heat

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Trophic levels

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Represent the feeding step in the passage of food/energy

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Name the four cycles we studied

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Water, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus

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Which of the following would decrease the amount of CO2 in the air?
Growing a Tree or driving a car

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Growing a tree
Because tres absorb CO2 & release oxygen
Driving releases CO2

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Abiotic or biotic

Trees

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Biotic

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Abiotic or biotic

Lakes

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abiotic

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The relationship of algae living in the fur of 3-toed sloths & helping camouflage the sloths is what type of symboitc relationship?

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Mutualism

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Because most humans eat both plants and animals they are described as _______.

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Omnivores

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E-mail me a picture of a population.

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