Chapter 2
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| Ecology | Ecology is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and their environment, such as the interactions organisms have with each other and with their abiotic environment.
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| Biotic | Biotic components are the living things that shape an ecosystem.
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| Abiotic | In Biology and Ecology abiotic components or abiotic factors are those non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems.
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| 5 levels of environmental | 1. organsism
2. population
3. community
4. ecosystem
5. biosphere
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| Organism | In biology, an organism is any contiguous living system, such as a vertebrate, insect, plant or bacterium.
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| Population | A group of indaviduals that live togeather.
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| Community | Contains a sertain spesias in a sertan area.
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| Ecosystem | An ecosystem is a community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system.
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| Biosphere | The biosphere is the global sum of all ecosystems. It can also be termed the zone of life on Earth, a closed system, and largely self-regulating.
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| Producer/Autotroph | An autotroph is an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple substances present in its surroundings, generally using energy from light or inorganic chemical reactions.
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| Consumer/Heterotroph | A heterotroph is an organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth. Heterotrophs can be further divided based on how they obtain energy.
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| Herbivore | A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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| Carnivore | A carnivore meaning 'meat eater' is an organism that derives its energy and nutrient requirements from a diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue, whether through predation or scavenging.
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| Omnivore | An omnivore is an animal that can derive its energy and nutrients from a diet consisting of a variety of food sources that may include plants, animals, algae, fungi and bacteria.
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| Scavenger | an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse.
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| Decomposer | Decomposers or saprotrophs are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, and in doing so carry out the natural process of decomposition.
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| Food Web | A food web depicts feeding connections in an ecological community and hence is also referred to as a consumer-resource system.
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| Food Chain | A food chain is a linear sequence of links in a food web starting from a species that are called producers in the web and ends at a species that is called decomposers species in the web.
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| Energy Pyramid | An enerygy pyramid is a graphical representation designed to show the biomass or biomass productivity at each trophic level in a given ecosystem. Biomass is the amount of living or organic matter present in an organism.
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| Limiting Factor | A limiting factor limits the growth or development of an organism, population, or process.
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| Carrying Capacity | The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities available in the environment
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| Predator | Any organism that exists by preying upon other organisms.
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| Prey | An animal hunted or seized for food.
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| Predator Adaptations | Predator adaptations help many predators catch their prey.
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| Prey Adaptations | Prey Adaptations help the prey to avoid being eaten.
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| Symbiosis | Symbiosis is close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species.
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| Mutualism | Mutualism is the way two organisms of different species exist in a relationship in which each individual benefits.
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| Commensalism | In ecology, commensalism is a class of relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits without affecting the other.
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| Paristitsm | A relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
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