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| the study of the interactions among living things |
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| a group of diffrent specie that live in a habitat |
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| a group of the same type of organisms that live in a habitat |
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| major regional or global community that have the same abiotic charicteristics |
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| anything that is alive, has been alive or is from somthing alive |
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a factor in an ecosystem that is not alive, has never been alive is not part of somthing alive and will never be alive
eg: wind, temp, sand, humidity, rain |
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| the varity of living things in a habitat |
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| an important organism in an habitat that has a large nitch in that ecosystem |
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| a specific job that an organism has on an ecosystem |
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| makes its own food through photosynthesis |
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| organism which uses photosynthesis to create its own food |
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| organism that relies on other organisms for energy via cellular respiration |
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| organisms that only have the ability to obtain energy by eating plants |
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| organisms that must eat other consumers in order to obtain energy from cellular respiration |
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organisms which make their own food through a process of converting various chemicials into food rather that using photosynthesis
this is rare and only exsists in volcanoes, and in deep oceans |
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| eats meat / other consumers |
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| eats dead matter and converts it into usable nitrogen for decomposers |
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| breaks down digested remains of organisms and transforms it into usable nitrogen and nutrients for plants |
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| an organism that has a very specific diet and are very sensitive to change in ecosystems |
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| is able to eat a varity of food products thus allowing for a greater variety and less opposed to change |
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| groupings of organisms based upon their dietary needs and specific placment in their ecosystem |
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| a tropic level map which shows preditor prey relationships |
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| a trophic map which shows one directional pattern in an ecosystem |
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| a trophic model which shows complexity of an ecosystem as well as shows energy loss between levels |
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| the total amount of energy in an ecosystem |
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| all of the livining and nonliving things in an ecosystem |
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| a condition where two specie is competing for the same resoources in an ecosystem |
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| two organisms in the same nitch fighting for same resource |
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| capturing and feeding on prey |
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relationship between two animals
there are three types
mutulism
commensalism
and parisitism |
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| symbosis where both organisms are equally helped |
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| symbosis where one is helped the other is niether helped nor hurt |
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symbosis where one organism is helped and the other is hurt
there are two hosts involved
difenitive, and intermediate |
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| host in parisitism that is used as a carrier and is not hurt |
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| host in parisitism where organism is infected / hurt |
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| measurment of an individual specie in an ecosystem figured out by dividing avrage number of organisms by area squared |
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| individual group of individual specie found in one area in an ecosystem |
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| individuals live specific distances from one another in invisiable boundries usually set through urination, song, or scennting |
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| individuals are spread randomly in an area |
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| adding to population size either by migration into population pool or by birth rate |
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| decrease in population size through migration out of population pool or death |
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| ecosystem with little a biotic factors making population sizes in the tropic levels sparce |
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| specie of organism able to live in bare rock sucession |
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ecosystem with little a biotic factors allowing for small organisms in the various tropic levels
typicial examples may include
worms, smallbirds, short grasses |
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| a biotic factors allow for greater diversity of life allowing for small shrubs, thus allowing for small snakes, larger birds and the introduction to small mammials |
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| sucession level whrere there is a great deal of resources however there are limmiting factors not allowing it to obtain climaz level organisms can be very deverse and complexety of trophic levels is huge |
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| the final stage of sucession where the abiotic factors are present for large growth, and there are few limmiting factors allowing for the largest complexity in tropic levels possiable |
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| succession which occours in a regrowth or damaged ecosystem examples may include a fallen tree or a sunken ship |
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| eats both plants and animals |
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process of converting glucose into usable energy in all heterotrophs
includes the following steps
glucose
1. add phosphate to glucose
2. add a second phasphate to glucose
3. split glucose in half creating two carbon chains
4. add phosphate
5. take phasphate and water to nadh
6. flip O and P on top take water to nadh
7. split carbon chain making CO2 and pyruvic acid
add O2 go to Kreb no O2 lactic acid firmintation
kreb/abriged/
1. Coa to take away water
2. Isocitric acid (stomach acid)
3. add water malic acid
4. add water citric acid
ets /abriged/
1. membrane of mitochondria transfer through osmosis H and ADP
2. make water in cytoplasim and link adp TO EXTRA p TO MAKE atp
3. WHOLE PROCESS MAKES 36 atp
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| to blend into back ground |
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| color pattern of camoflage which hides organism |
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| two distinct color patterns allowing an organism to hide in open areas like ocean |
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| camoflage showing warning |
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| a type of coloration allowing an organism to look like somthing else |
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| biologicial magnification |
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| type of poisen that does not break down but moves up the trophic levels |
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| the total amount of organinsms an ecosystem can hold according to biomass of the ecosystem |
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