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Ecology cards!!!!!!
Question | Answer |
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abiotic | nonliving |
biotic | living |
Habitat | where something lives |
Biome | A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat. |
niche | the job that everything has to do to keep things rolling |
immigration | •Immigration is when organisms move in from another environment. |
emigration | migration from a place |
limiting factors | •When the availability of the amount of any of these resources in a given area is less than what the various populations need, it becomes a limiting factor. |
community | : All the different populations in a specific area or region at a certain time. |
Population | All of the individuals of a given species in a specific area or region at a certain time. |
Omnivore | when an animal eats plants and meat |
scavenger | An animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse |
carrying capacitygro | The number of people, other living organisms, or crops that a region can support without environmental degradation. |
predator | An animal that naturally preys on others. |
Prey | the animal that gets preyed on by the predator |
renewable resource | are replaced through natural processes at a rate that is equal to or greater than the rate at which they are being used. Air, freshwater, soil, living things, and sunlight are renewable resources. |
nonrenewable resource | Nonrenewable resources are exhaustible because they are being extracted and used at a much faster rate than the rate at which they were formed. |
soil | Soil is a mixture of rock particles, minerals, decayed organic material, air, and water. Soil is one of the most valuable abiotic factors in an ecosystem because everything that lives on land depends directly or indirectly on soil |
groundwater | Water that soaks into the ground. |
permeable | Soil and rock that allow the water to pass through is called permeable. |
impermeable | Not allowing fluid to pass through: |
aquifer | A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater. |
Zone of saturation | The area where the water has filled all the space in the soil is called the zone of saturation; |
divide | •A divide is the high ground between two drainage basins. |
drainage basin | •An area that is drained by a river and all the streams that empty into it, the tributaries, is called a drainage basin |
watershed | An area that is drained by a river and all the streams that empty into it, the tributaries, is called a drainage basin or watershed |