Ecology - JC
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| any spatial or organizational unit composed of a living and nonliving component where in there is a transfer of materials between the two | ecosystem
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| what are the five groups of living things? | plants, animals, fungi, protista, and moafran
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| what are examples of nonliving things? | H2O, O2, N2, & CO2
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| What are all animal life? | consumers (heterotroph)
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| what do plants do? | take light and energy and make it into glucose
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| what are plants? | producers
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| any spatial or organizational unit composed of a living and nonliving component where in there is a transfer of materials between the two | ecosystem
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| to be able to perpetuate, to keept going | sustainable
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| what are the four components of sustainability? | maintains biodiversity, energy comes from the sun, matter is recycled, consumer populations are kept in check so that overgrazing doesn't occur
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| are human ecosystems sustainable? | no
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| when nature decides what breeds with what | natural selection
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| to breed a creature with certain characteristics | human selection
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| lead to change from exposure from chemicals | genetic mutation
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| the three things that a creature will do when threatened with change | adapt, migrate, perish
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| that area where life exists; 10 miles thick; no living thing can live outside of it | biosphere
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| a systematic approach to answering questions or solving problems | scientific method
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| body of knowledge that explains natural phenomenon and a method for obtaining that knowledge | science
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| any living thing | organism
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| study of organisms and the environment | ecology
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| scientists who study the interactions that occur within the biosphere | ecologists
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| occurs between members of the same species | intraspecies interactions
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| occurs between members of different species | interspecies interactions
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| the study of human interactions with the environment | environmental science
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| information gathered directly through the senses, measurements, or experiments | observation
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| observations that describe something | qualitative data
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| obtained through direct measurements | quantitative data
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| the study of living organisms in their natural setting | fieldwork
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| uses a representative portion of a population to determine a single characteristic of the entire population | sampling
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| proposed solution to the problem or answer to the question | hypothesis
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| one way to test a hypothesis | experimentation
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| a logical explanation based on the data gathered and verified by many others scientists | theory
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