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APES topic 1.1
Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Individual | one organism |
| Population | group of individuals of same species |
| community | all living organisms in an area |
| ecosystem | all living and nonliving things in an area |
| biome | large area with similar climate conditions that determine plant and animal species there |
| competition | organisms fighting over a resource like food or shelter; limits population size |
| predation | one organism using another for energy source (hunters, parasites, even herbivores) |
| mutualism | relationship that benefits both organisms (coral reefs) |
| commensalism | relationship that benefits one organism and doesn't impact the other (birds nest in tree) |
| herbivores | (plant eaters) eat plants for energy (giraffe and tree) |
| true predators | (carnivores) kill and eat prey for energy (leopard and giraffe) |
| parasite | use a host organism for energy, often without killing the host and often living inside the host |
| parasitoids | lay eggs inside a host organism; eggs hatch and larvae eat host for energy (parasitic wasp, bot fly) |
| sym | together |
| bio | living |
| osis | condition |
| symbiosis | any close and long term interaction between two organisms of two species |
| What do mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism all have in common? | they are all symbiotic relationships |
| mutualism | organisms of different species living close together in a way that benefits both |
| what is the relationships between coral and algae? | coral provides reef structure and co2 for algae; algae provides sugars for corals to use as energy |
| lichen | composite organism of fungi living with algae; algae provides sugars and fungi provides nutrients |
| What does competition do to population size? | it reduces it because there are fewer resources |
| temporal partitioning | different species use the same resource in different ways to reduce competition |
| temporal partitioning | using resources at different times a (wolves and coyotes hunting at different times) |
| spatial partitioning | using different areas of shared habitat (different root lengths) |
| morphological partitioning | using different resources based of different evolved body features |
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