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| Study of interactions of organisms with eachother and with their enviroments |
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| Living parts of enviroment |
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| Non-living parts of enviroment |
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| What are the enviromental levels? |
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- Organism
- Population
- Community
- Ecosystems
- Biosphere
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| Group of members of the same species |
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| A community & its abiotic factors |
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| Use energy in sunlight to make food |
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| Eat organisms to obtain energy |
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| What are the 4 types of consumers? |
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- Herbivors
- Carnivors
- Omnivores
- Scavengers
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| Obtain energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms |
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| One way flow of energy in an ecosystem |
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| Many energy pathways between organisms |
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| Different levels in food chains/webs |
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| What are 4 steps of the C cycle? |
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- Photosynthesis
- Respiration
- Decomposition
- Combustion
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| Enviroment in which an organism lives |
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| What do habitats provide? |
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| role a species has in its environment |
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| [a]biotic factors that becomes scarce thus restricting population size |
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| Largest population size that an environment can support |
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| 2 or more individuals/populations trying to use same resources |
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| Between different species |
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| Realationship in which there is a close & permanent association between organisms of different species |
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| What are the 3 types of symbiosis? |
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- Mutualism
- Commensalism
- Parasitism
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| One organism benefits while the other is unaffected |
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| One organism benefits, other organism is negetively impacted |
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| Caused by harmful substances |
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| What are 4 major pollutants? |
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- Solid wastes
- Chemicals
- Heat
- Noise
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Author of Silent Spring. Wrote about danger of pesticides
(DOT= dichorodiphenyltrichloroethane) |
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| What are some examples of non-renewable resources? |
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| What are some examples of renewable resources? |
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| Solar energy, wind, water, biomass |
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| Threaten native species & damage habitats, can cause extinction |
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| Reaching numbers that Earth cannot support |
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| Habitats are changed, damaged & destroyed |
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| Wise use of and preservation of Earth's natural resources |
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| What are the three types of conservation? |
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| Protect food webs and ecosystems |
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| What are 2 types of biodeversity? |
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- Species protection
- Habitat protection
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