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Ecology unit 9 science emily

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Ecology   The scientific study of how organisms interact with their environment and all the other organisms that live in that environment  
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Biosphere ( most complex), Biome, Ecosystem , community, Population( level in our classroom), Organism( simplest-most specific)   Environment can be organized into what six levels of hierarchy  
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Environment   Consists of all living and non living things with which organisms may interact ( abiotic-biotic)  
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Biosphere   It is life supporting portions of the earth composed of air, fresh water, salt water. Highest level of organization  
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Biome   Describes in very general terms the climate and types of plants that are found in similar places around the world.  
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Ecosystem   A particular environment and all living things that are supported by it. Includes living and no living parts. Can be small as a pond or as large as a dessert  
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Community   Is made up the living components of the ecosystem. A group of population that live in a particular area and interact with one another  
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Population   A group of the same type of living in the same area  
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Organism   A single individual animal, plant, fungus, or other living things  
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Through photosynthesis and chemical energy. The solar energy- sun provides most of the energy that is stored in food.   How does energy enter into the living parts of ecosystem?  
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Habitats   Place in which an organism lives, food, shelter, water, and everything else the species needs to survive. A physical place to live  
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Niche   Organisms roles to play in a habitat. It is not limited to its place in the food web. Like a plant is food but also shelter.  
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Producer   Is an organism that captures energy and stores it in food as chemical energy. Plants, photosynthesis bacteria  
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Herbivore   First order of consumer. Consumers. Eats only plants. Ex. Caterpillars, deer  
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Carnivore   Consumers eat only animals. Ex lions, spiders, snake  
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Omnivore   Consumers that eat both plants and animals. Ex raccoons, coyotes, most humans  
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Scavengers   Carnivores that feed on the bodies of dead organisms. Ex beetles, vultures, cat fish, ants  
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Consumers   Four types. Are organisms that get their energy by eating, or consuming other organisms.  
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Relationship between producers and consumers   Producers transform the suns energy into sugars. Consumers take in this stored energy when they set the producers.  
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Decomposer   Organisms that break down dead plant and animals matter into simpler compounds  
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Fungi and bacteria. ( mushrooms and mold)   What are the 2 major groups of deco posers  
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Detritivores   Eat dead matter like plant and animal remains ex worms and snails  
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Food web   Is a model of the feeding relationship between many different consumers and producers in an ecosystem It is overlapping and interconnected  
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Food Chain   Describes the feeding relationship between producer and a single chain of consumers in an ecosystem  
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Both show how organism receive their energy. How different organisms depend on each other. Food chain is a single chain of feeding relationships in an ecosystem. A food web show many different feeding relationships   Difference between a food chain and food web  
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From the animal being eaten to the animal that ate it. Grass--> Deer---->lion   What ways do the arrows point on a food web  
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Energy pyramid   A model that shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level of an ecosystem  
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Producers   Which layer contains the most energy the the Energy Pyramid? And why?  
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Tertiary consumers   Which layer contains the least energy in the energy pyramid? And why?  
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Producers capture the sunlight, consumer consume the energy of what they have eaten- only what is leftover from their use.   How is energy is transferred through out the energy pyramid  
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What is the 10% law?   The energy at one level of the food web is transferred to the next. The other 90% is used for the organisms life's processes. Because 90% lost each level. Not enough energy for many feeding levels  
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Producers1000 kg, primary herbivores 100 kg, second consumers 10 kg, top carnivores tertiary 1 kg   How do you calculate how many calories are transferred to each level?  
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At each level in the pyramid there is less available energy than the level before   Why is the level of energy change at each level of the pyramid?  
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Producer ( autotrophs) primary consumer ( herbivores) secondary consumer (omnivores/ small carnivores) tertiary consumer ( carnivores)   What are the levels of the energy pyramid  
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Hawk and snakes would die   Explain the mice, snake, and hawk relationship what happened if removed  
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Mice, snake, hawk because both snake and hawk eats mice and hawk eats snake   What is the order of consumers of snake, hawk, mice and why?  
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Competition, predation, symbiosis   What are the interaction of species  
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Parasite   Organism that feeds on other living organisms and weaken their host Ex tape worm, lice, ticks  
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Host   Organism in which another organism lives on is called  
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Predator   Is an animal that kills and eats other animals Hunts and eats another animal  
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Prey   Is an animal eaten by a predator. In food chain. An organism can be both  
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Predator eat and leave and parasites stay and consumer on the host parasite is usually smaller   What is the difference between predatation vs parasitism  
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Primary producers   Autotrophs Plants that capture the sunlight  
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Primary consumers   Herbivores , deer  
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Secondary consumers   Small carnivores, omnivores . Wolves , coyotes  
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Tertiary consumers   Large carnivores. Lions  
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Succession   Change in ecological communities over a long period of time  
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Primary succession and secondary succession   What two types of succession  
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Primary succession   Series of changes that occur in an area where no ecosystem was there before. Ex barren rock  
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Pioneer species   The first species to populate an area  
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Secondary succession   Series of changes that occur after a disturbance in a disturbance in an existing ecosystem. Ex fire, flood, abandon field  
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Bare rock, Lichens and Mosses, Grasses and Shrubs, softwood, Mixed Hardwood   5 stages of succession  
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Bare rock   No soil, no available nutrients, no active life... Not a community  
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Lichens and Mosses   Pioneer species, first to colonize rocks, secrete acid onto rocks which liberates nutrients, catches wind blown dirt, can take 100 to 1000 years. Least diverse, least stable  
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Grasses and Shrub   Early succession plants, do not need deep roots. Like full sun. Shrubs that move in causes shade and kills them  
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Softwood   Mid-succession plant. Trees that need a lot of sunlight. Cedar or pine  
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Mixed Harwood   Mature forest. Saplings are shade tolerant. When adult tree dies leaves a whole in the canopy Sampling race to the top. Grow tall not wide. Most diverse less likely to erode  
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Symbiosis   Living together Close relationship between two organism lives near, on, or inside another organism  
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Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism   What are the three types of symbiosis?  
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Mutualism symbiosis (+,+)   An interaction between two species that benefits both. Ex bee and flowers. Bee need the food from nectar, but the help flowers by pollinating  
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Commensalism symbiosis (+,0)   Is a relationship between two species in which one species benefits while the other is not affected. Ex. Lichens on tree- light enough not to harm. Not always food but for protection. Jelly fish and fish  
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Parasitism symbiosis (+,0)   Is the relationship between two species in which one species benefits while the species it depends on ( host) is harmed.  
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Climax community   The final stable plant community. The community may reach a point of stability that can last for hundreds or thousand years  
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Primary no soil, cause lava flow, glacier movement pioneer species- need to move in via seeds or spores. Secondary there is soil, cause by fire, floods, change in land usage, pioneer species- survived in soil.   What is the difference between primary and secondary succession  
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Intraspecific competition   Occurs within the same species. ( two Creosote trees fighting for sun and water)  
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Interspecific competition   Occurs between members of different species. Strangler fig and a tree- can attach to host tree  
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Intraspecific occurs with same species and interspecific completion occurs among different species competing for same resources that are limited   What is the difference between intraspecific and interspecific competition  
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Predation (+,-)   Relationship that exists between a predator and it's prey. An interaction in which one organism kills and eats another  
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1. Everything is connected to everything else. 2. Everything must go somewhere. 3. Nature knows best. 4 there is no such thing as a free lunch   What are the four ecological Rules  
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Fundamental niche and Realized niche   What are the two niche  
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Fundamental niche   All the resources opportunities an organism can occupy. Potential  
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Realized niche   The resources opportunities an organism DOES occupy. Actual  
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Tropic level or feeding level   What are each level of the food chain called  
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Heat of organism   At each level of a food chain, energy is lost mostly in the form of  
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