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Grade 9 Science Ecology Trems and Discriptions

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1. Ecology   Study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment in a system.  
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2. Abiotic   Non living things, physical things such as, minerels, air or things measured such as temperature, hours of daylight, salt concentration.  
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3. Biotic   Living, these factors are organism such as plants, animals, mushrooms, bacteria, algae.  
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4. Ecosystem   Any network of interacting living & non-living factors.  
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5. Natural Ecosystem   A natural ecosystem is neither planned nor maintained by people.  
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6. Artificial Ecosystem   Artificial Ecosystem is planned and maintained by people. Examples: City, Zoo, Aquarium, and farms.  
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7. Species   A group of similar organisms in an ecosystem that can reproduce with each other.  
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8. Population   A group of memebers of the same species that live in the same area.  
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9. Community   Populations of different species that live in the same area.  
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10. Niche   All the interactions of a given species with its ecosystem.  
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11. Biome   Large geographical region that contains similar ecosystems.  
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12. Terrestrial   Land-based / aquatic-water based  
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13. Biosphere   A part of our planet, including water, land and air, where life exits. Biomes combine to form this.  
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14. Herbivores   An animal that eats ONLY plants  
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15. Carnivores   An animal that eats mostly meat.  
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Omnivores   An animal that eats both plants and meat.  
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Predators   Animals that catches and feeds off of other live animals.  
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Scavengers   An animal that mostly eats decaying biomass.  
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Parasites   Obtain  
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Detrovores   A consumer that feeds on organic matter  
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Decomposers   A special group of consumers that break down organic matter and release the nutrients back into the ecosystem.  
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Heterotroph   Organisms that must feed on other organisms to obtain energy  
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Food Chains   Show A step-by-step sequence of who eats whom in an ecosystem and the one-way flow of energy from the producer to the top level consumer.  
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photosynthesis   The process plants use to produce carbohydrates from carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight. (CO2+H20 --> sugar + O2)  
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Biodiversity   Number and range of different organisms in an area.  
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Toxins    
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Bioaccumulation   Gradual build-up of chemicals in an organism’s body.  
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Respiratiion    
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Extirpated   Species that no longer exist in a particular region but still occurs elsewhere.  
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Ampibious   Born in water, breathing with gills but can live on land or in water.  
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Carrying Capacity   maximum number of individuals that an ecosystem can support without reducing its ability to support future generations of the same species.  
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Commensalism   Type of symbiosis in which one species benefits from a relationship without helping or harming the other species.  
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Mutualism   A type of symbiosis in which both species benefit from the symbiotic partnership.  
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Symiosis   Close interaction between two different species in which members of one species lives in on or near members of another species  
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Environment   All living things and nonliving things that exist on Earth  
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Habitat   The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.  
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