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Ecology

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What is ecology? Hint - Environment The study of organisms and how they interact with each other and their environment (living and non-living factors).
What is prey? Hint - Presa An animal that is hunted and killed for food by another animal.
What is a biotic factor? Hint living -Bio = life, alive Living factors in the environment that an organization might interact with.
What is abiotic factor? Hint - A = not - “non/not-living” Things in the environment that are not living
What are species? Hint - “S” - Species - Same Two organisms are considered the same species if they can interbreed/mate and their offspring
What is population? Hint - población Members/SAME species of the same people
What is community? Hint: Different species All the different populations in the same area (made of DIFFERENT species) like the humans, birds, squirrels, dogs, rabbits, etc)
What is an ecosystem? Hint - “E” in environment and ecosystem A community and its environment, which includes not just the people and animals in Westchester, for example, but include water, oxygen and sunlight.
What is a biome? A group of ecosystems that share similar climates and organisms, like the tundra, desert. A large geographic area characterized by specific climate, soil, and plant and animal life, such as a desert, forest, or grassland.
What is a biosphere? Hint: sphere/esfera Part of the earth where living things exist.
What is a habitat? Hint - Home - letter "H" Where the specifies actually lives.
What is niche? What the organism eats, does, sleeps, lives, etc The role of an organism or species has within its environment, and how it interacts with biotic (living) and abiotic (non-living) factors to survive, reproduce, eat, sleep, live.
Competition? Hint - sports If two species have the same or similar niches (food, shelter, etc.) could lead to struggle/fighting/opposition.
Producer? Hint - "P" producer "P" plants Organisms (plants or autotrophs) that make their own food. These organic compounds mean make their own food from inorganic materials (light, carbon dioxide, water); starting point of all food chains and webs.
Consumer? Hint- carne Opposite of producer, “heterotroph” primary or first level consumer, they eat producers, and secondary consumers eat primary producers.
Herbivore Hint - Herbs The first level or primary consumers, since they are the first ones to eat the plants and other autotrophs in a food chain or web.
Carnivore Hint - Carne AKA secondary or secondary or second level consumers which eat other organisms.
Omnivore Hint - Omni means ALL Eat both producers and consumers (plants/autotrophs and meat)
Decomposer Hint - dead Organisms that break down and recycle the nutrients and materials in dead organisms.
Food chain Hint - chain/cadena A diagram of feeding relationships where arrows symbolize the energy being transferred from one organism to the next.
Food Web Hint - Many chains in a web. Web/telaraña nterconnected food chains within an ecosystem, showing how energy and nutrients flow as different organisms eat each other.
Energy Pyramid Hint - pyramid/triangle/pirámide Diagram that shows how much ENERGY is in an ecosystem and how it is LOST has you go higher up.
Energy Flow Hint - ---> ----->-----> Energy in ecosystem FLOWS/fluir the sun to producers to primary consumers to seconanary consumers to decomposers.
Cycling of Materials Hint - recycle Things that get recycled and reused again.
Ecological succession The process by which an area's plant and animal communities change over time, often after a disturbance, as pioneer species are replaced by others, eventually leading to a more stable climax community.
Parasites They can live on something and harm the thing they are living on.
Dichotomous Hint - Di means 2 Divided or dividing into two parts, or relating to dichotomy (a division into two parts)
Scavenger They eat dead organisms.
Limiting factors Hiint - límite Limits and affects the size of a population.
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