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EOC 7
EOC 7 flash cards
Term | Definition |
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78% | Approximate amount of nitrogen in the atmosphere |
Pheromone | Ants and termites may use this to mark a path that leads to food |
Territory | An area that an animal claims or defends by marking it with urine or musk |
Carbon Cycle | The transfer of carbon between the living non living environment |
Carbon Dioxide | Released when fossil fuels are burned |
Commensalism | One organism benefits and the other neither benefits or is harmed |
Courtship Dances | An example of visual communication to attract mates |
Habitat | A place where an organism lives |
Mutualism | Both organisms benefit |
Niche | An organism’s role in its community |
Nitrogen Fixation | WHen soil bacteria break down nitrogen gas from the atmosphere and convert to a form that plants can use |
Parasitism | One organism benefits, the other is harmed |
Population | All the organisms of a species that live in an area at the same time |
Symbiosis | Interactions between organisms of different species |
Processes that move carbon throughout the ecosystem | Photosynthesis, respiration, burning of fossil fuels (combustion |