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Ecology Stack
For science warmup 1/4/2017, and for the test on 1/24/2017
Term | Definition |
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Ecology | The study of Earth's ecosystems |
Ecosystem | A system that includes all living organisms in an area, as well as their environment, functioning together as a unit |
Dynamic | Always changing |
Organism | Any single living thing, made of cells, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium. |
The two factors that make up an ecosystem | Biotic and Abiotic factors |
Biotic | A living component of an ecosystem |
Abiotic | A non-living component of an ecosystem |
Levels of Organization (smallest to largest possible) | Individual, Population, Community, Ecosystem, Biome, and Biosphere |
The Biosphere | The part of Earth where all living things exist, containing all of the ecosystems on Earth |
Biome | A very large *community*of plants and animals |
Community | A group of different kinds of species, living in the same area, commonly interacting with each other |
Population | A group of individuals belonging to the same species that live in the same region at the same time |
Individual | A single living being, commonly referred to as an organism |
Biodiversity | A wide variety (diversity) of living things (bio) |
What Biodiversity is essential to | A healthy ecosystem |
Habitat | The place where an organism or a population normally lives or can be found |