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Ecology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| _________is a group of orginisms in the same species living together | Population |
| Boitic | The living |
| Aboitic | non living |
| Ecosystem | Things in the same habitat (Boitic and Aboitic) |
| All biomes coexisting together "Earth" | Biosphere |
| An orginism that produces its own food throught photosinthesis | Producers/Autotrophs |
| An organism that eats prooducers | Primary consumers (Herbivor) |
| An organism that eats primary consumers | Secondary consumers (omnivors and carnivors) |
| Top preditors | Tertiary consumers (Mainly carnivors) |
| _____ breaks down dead plants and animals | Decomposers |
| Hererotroph | Consumer |
| Saprotroph | Decomposers |
| The relationship between two orgnisms where the ______ captures ________ | Predator/ prey relationship |
| rivalry between orginisms for recources such as food, habitat, mate, ect..... | Competition |
| Somthing in the enviroment that controlls the size of population. food, habitat, preditors, ect....... | Limiting factors |
| Food Webs | not linear more like spider webs, many levles, in real world. |
| Food chains | Linear sequence(in line) one animal eats other orginism. |
| What fuels the food system? | The sun |
| Energy is lost by....... | groth, reproduction, homostasis, ect............ |
| __________ is the relationship between two organisms | Symbiosis |
| _________ is when one organism benifits while the other is harmed (Ex: Botfly) | Parasitisms |
| When one species benifits and the other is unharmed (Ex: Orchids on trees) | Commensalism |
| When both species benefit (Ex: crocidiles and egyptian plovers/birds) | Mutualism |
| When nitrogen changes into a form plants can use | Nitrification |
| ___% of the atmosphere is nitrogen | 78 |
| Infiltration | Water goes into the ground |
| Transpiration | Water evaporates from plants |
| The burning of a substance | Combustion |
| Biome with pine trees | Coniferouse Forest |
| Hot and dry biome | Desert |
| Biome with hills, few trees, and elaphants. | Grassland |
| Biome with normal trees that shed leaves before winter. | Temperate Deciduous Forest |
| Biome with more bio-diversity, thin soil. | Tropical Rain Forest |
| Cold Biome | tundra |
| Permafrost | when soil is frozen all year long |