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Ecology |
The study of relationships of organisms and their environment |
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Ecosystem |
Interacting parts of system functioning as a unit |
Biotic and abiotic components |
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Aspects of ecology |
Physical, chemical, biological Species and physical environment, interspecies |
Environment and Relationships |
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Organisms and environment |
Natural selection -environment and other species shape each |
Gazelle and cheetah |
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Population |
group of organisms of the same species in a given area at a given time |
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Community |
All populations in an ecosystem |
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Population interactions |
Compete for resources, predator prey, mutually beneficial |
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Ecosystem |
Environment in which organisms carry out their struggle for existence including physical conditions and the array of organisms within it |
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Hierarchy |
Individual < population < community < ecosystem < landscape < biome < biosphere |
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Biome |
Geographic regions of earth with similar climate and geologic conditions. |
Tropical rainforest, desert, grasslands |
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Physical and chemical conditions that influence organism physiology |
Temperature, light, oxygen, carbon dioxide |
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Biosphere |
the thin layersurrounding the Earth that supports all of life |
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Biome orientation and charactarization |
Latitudinally Precipitation, soil type, temperature and plants |
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Independent variable |
An element of an experiment directly manipulated by the investigator |
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dependent variable |
response to the manipulation of the indepenent variable |
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Qualitative vs quantitative |
data without numbers vs numbers |
there are armadillos vs there are 39 armadillos |
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Sample size |
to be representative and have as little skewing by outliers, the more the better |
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Histogram |
Frequency of data (ht etc) |
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