Week 11: Ecology
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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nonvascular plant | plant that lacks vascular tissue consisting of tubes and associated cells, which transport water and nutrients throughout the plant; lacking xylem and phloem
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placental | provides for the nourishment of the fetus and the elimination of its waste products.
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carbon cycle | processes, including photosynthesis, decomposition, and respiration, by which carbon as a component of various compounds cycles
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carnivore | An animal that only eats meat.
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carrying capacity | In ecology, the number of individuals of a particular species that a region can sustain indefinitely
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commensalism | Symbiotic relationship between two organisms. when one organism benefits and one is unaffected.
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competition | Two or more organisms competing for a resource
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consumers | Those organisms that cannot produce their own food
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decomposers | An organism that gets energy from breaking down dead organisms or wastes
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development | progression from a simpler or lower to a more advanced, mature, or complex form or stage
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energy pyramid | A model to show the flow of energy through the food chain. Less energy is available at each level as you move toward the top.
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energy transfer | flows from sun to autotrophs, and later transferred to organisms, which feed on autotrophs and become prey for tertiary consumers.
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food chain | Feeding relationship that’s transfers energy through a community. Producers to herbivores to carnivores.
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food web | Food chains that overlap. More stable than a food chain
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herbivore | Organisms that eat only producers (green plants)
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heterotroph | An organism that cannot synthesize its own food and is dependent on complex organic substances for nutrition.
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limiting factors | restrict the growth of a population
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nutrition | the process by which organisms take in and utilize food material.
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