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Ecology
Question | Answer |
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_________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 |