Ecosystems
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| Atmosphere | thin envelope of air around the planet
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| Troposphere | the inner layer, extends about 11 miles above sea level but contains must of the earth's air 78% nitrogen 21% oxygen
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| hydrosphere | contains earths liquid water, ice, water vapor, in the atomosphere
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| Lithosphere | earths crust and upper mantle
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| Biosphere | portion of earth in which living organisms exsist and interaction, contains most of the hydrosphere and lower part of atmosphere and lithosphere
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| 3 interconnected factors that life on earth depends on | energy from the sun, cycling of matter, gravity
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| Biomes | classified terrestrial land porptions of the biosphere
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| ecotone | when one ecosystem tends to merge with the next, transitional zone
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| Major Abiotic Components in an Ecosystem | Air Nutriets Solar Energy
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| Major Biotic Components in an Ecosystem | Plants animals Microorganisms
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| Producers | make their own food from compounds obtained from the enviroment
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| Consumers | get their energy and nutrients by feeding on other organims or their remains
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| Herbivores | feed directly on producers
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| Carnivores | Feed on other consumers
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| Omnivores | both plants and animals
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| scavengers | feed on dead organisms
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| detrivores | feed on parts of dead organisms and cast off fragements and waste of living organisms
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| detritus feeders | extract nutrtient from partly decomposed organic matter in leat litter, animal poop, and plant debris
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| Decomposers | break down dead organisms to get nutrients and release the resutling simple inorganic compounds into the soil and water
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| Gross Primary Productivity | the rate at which an ecosystem's producers covert solar energy into chemical energy as biomass
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| Net Primary Productivity | What is available for food by other organisms in an ecosystem x=Rate at which producers store chem. energy as biomass- rate at which producers use it
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