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| Large groups of ecosystems with similar climate and organisms. |
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| Traits that allow species to survive in their environment. |
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| Name 3 body structures and actions that help organisms survive. |
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Body structures= Claws,teeth,fur,color.
Actions= migration,hibernation,burrowing. |
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Location: around the equator
climat: wet and damp
Animals: snakes,spiders,chimpanzees
plant: flat trees with layers.
Canopy is top layer,understory is middle layer,forest floor is lowest. |
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Location:around the equator
Climate:hot and dry
animal: camal and lizard
plant: cactus
There is cold hot and in between deserts. Like rocky desert sandy desert and arctic desert. |
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Location: Africa,Asia,north and south america.
Climate:mild temperatures
animal: giraffe and lions.
Plant: Small bushes tall grass and few trees. |
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Location:Asia and North America
climate: 6 months of winter summer is short
animal:wolves bears and deers.
Plant: evergreen trees (pine) Conifer trees |
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Location: Antarctica and north pole
Climate: extremely cold temperatures
Animal: Polar bears and arctic fox
plant:moss
It has a layer of permafrost layer of soil frozen all year. |
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| North american prairies and african savannas are types of grass lands. |
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Location: Eastern part of the us
Climate: Mild temperatures
Animal:deer raccoon and squirrels.
Plant:trees that loose their leaves. |
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| All the living parts of an ecosystem such as grass plants and animals. |
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| All the nonliving parts of an ecosystem such as water,sunlight,soil,oxygen,and temperature. |
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| The place were an organism lives and that provides the things an organism needs. |
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| Environmental factors that prevent a population from growing. For example is that there is no enough food or there is not enough water or space. |
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| The largest population that an area can support. |
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| The smallest unit of organization in a ecosystem. (all of the same species) |
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| All of the members of one species in a particular area. |
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| The one type of animals and thy can reproduce. Ex is humans. |
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| All the different populations that live together. |
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| all the living and nonliving things that interact in an ecosystem. |
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| What are the levels of the ecosystem from bottom to top? (Make sure you know a picture for each) |
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| Organism-species-population-ecosytem. |
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| The struggle between organisms to survive. |
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| one organism kills another: predator/prey |
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| Close relationships between two or more species. At least on has to benefit. |
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| What does symbiosis include? |
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| Mutualism. commensalism, and parasitism |
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Relationship when both organisms benefit.
Ex. Flower and bees. |
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Relationship in wich one organism benefits and the other does not care.
Barnacles live on whales and get to be transported to different areas of the ocean to feed. The whales are not affected. |
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| Relationship when one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it. Flea and Dog, Flea gets home/food and Dog is harmed b/c the flea feeds on its blood! |
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| The way an organism obtains energy and and interacts with other living things in an ecosystem. |
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| An organism that makes its own food. Ex a plant gets food from sun. |
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| Consumers that only eat plants. Rabbit |
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| Consumers that only eat meat. Tigers |
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| Consumers that eat both plants and animals. Humans. |
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| A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms. Ex crow and vulture. |
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| Organisms that break down waste and dead organisms and return raw materials back to the environment. Ex fungi mushrooms. |
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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. Going bottom to top Ex
grass-]grasshopper-]snake-]hawk |
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| Many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
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| What is the difference between a food web and a food chain. |
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Food chain- single series of events
food web- many series of events |
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-Series of changes that occur in an area
-no ecosystem existed before hand. |
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| -Series of changes that occur after a disturbance in an ecosystem. Fire volcano and flood. |
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-First species to populate an area after succession.
-Lichen and mosses |
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| Example of secondary succession |
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| A fire whips out a forest and slowly grows back after 100 years. |
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