General Ecosense | Lets Get Organized | Shipping It | They Say You Want Some Evolution | Gosh I'm Hungry |
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What is ecology
The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment.
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What is an organism?
A single individual of any type.
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What is competition?
Two organisms fighting over limited resources.
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What is an adaptation?
The behaviors and physical characteristics that allow an organism to live successfully in its habitat.
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What is a food chain.
A single sequence that shows who eats who.
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What is abiotic
Anything that is non-living found in the environment.
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What is a Population
all of the members of the same species within an area.
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What is mutualism?
A relationship where both organisms benefit.
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What is a hetertroph, or consumer?
An organism that has adapted to getting its energy from eating other organisms.
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What is predation and prey?
The process where one organism kills and eats another. And what is the organism being eated called.
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What is biotic?
Dead logs, rabbits, fallen leaves are examples of this.
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What is a community.
All the different populations in an area together make this.
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What is symbiosis?
Aclose relationship between two members of different species.
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What is an autotroph, producer, or plant?
An organism that has adapted to being able to make its own food from inorganic substances.
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What is an omnivore?
An organism that can eat both plants and animals.
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What is a niche?
The role or job an organism holds in its environment.
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What is a species?
A group of organisms that can have offspring, and those offspring han have offspring?
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What is parasitism
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
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What is natural selection?
The process theough which characteristics that aid survival become common traits in a species.
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What is a decomposer?
an organism that gets its energy from breaking down dead materials.
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What is interdependence?
The process where organisms within an ecosystem rely upon each other for survival.
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What is ecosystem.
All the communities of organisms in an area plas the abiotic items is what?
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What is commensalism?
A relationship where one organism benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
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What is a limiting factor?
The lack of available space, weather, limited food supplies, and competition are examples of this.
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What is an energy pyramid and 10%?
a diagram that shows how much energy is transfered from one trophic level to another. And what percentof energy is actuallytransferred.
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