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SLS Bio 11 Ecology CP

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Carrying capacity   Amount of people, living organisms, a region supports without environmental degradation.  
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Cellular respiration   Reaction that uses energy, it uses fatty acids or amino acid to breakdown to produce ATP molecules.  
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Chemical equations   Chemical reaction using element symbols to show the amount of substance.  
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Climax community   Community when succession has come to an end.  
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Commensalism   Relation when one organisms is benefited but neither the other one is harmed.  
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Consumer   Organism that feeds on another organism in a food chain.  
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Cyclic growth   The cycle of growth.  
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Decomposer   A decomposer decomposes an organism and re create energy for other organism.  
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Density-dependent factors   Biotic factor, a disease or competition, it effects population size and population density.  
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Density-independent factors   Abiotic factors, that effects independent population size such as a fire or flood.  
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Ecological succession   Replacement of communities in an area following a disturbance, secondary succession, or the creation of new soil, primary succession.  
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Energy flow   Energy flow is the movement of energy from one organism from another by eating one and other it usually, organism receives 10% of other organism energy.  
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Exponential growth   The growth of a population, it occurs in the same way as compound interest.  
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Logistic growth   Occurs when the growth rate decreases as the population reaches carrying capacity.  
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Mutualism   Symbiotic relations in which both species benefit.  
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Parasitism   Symbiotic relationship in which one species such as parasites benefits in terms of growth and reproduction and feeds of other organisms.  
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Photosynthesis   In which a plant and algae take energy from the sun to turn it into food.  
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Pioneer species   The first species to be involved in a ecosystem, from previously disrupted ecosystems to create new colonization.  
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Population   The amount of organism in one area.  
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Producer   A producer is either a plant or grass, and consumers feed of of it for energy or food.  
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Pyramid of energy   Pyramid of energy is a the food chain for energy that follows as producer, primary consumer, then secondary consumer and so on.  
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Reactants   Substance that participates in a reaction.  
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Steady state   Condition in a physical process, especially as in the theory that the universe is eternal and maintained by constant creation of matter.  
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Symboisis   Relationship that happened when two different types of species live together in a unique way.  
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