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| Ecologist | Someone who studies ecology |
| Ecology | The study of interactions between biotic and abiotic things |
| Abiotic | Never living e.g. sun, sand/soil, water and temperature |
| Biotic | Living or once living organisms |
| Organism | One singular animal |
| Population | Multiple organisms of the same species |
| Community | Different populations living/interacting with each other |
| Ecosystem | A community and its abiotic factors |
| Biosphere | All of the ecosystems, mainly all of the parts of the world that are living |
| 3 Types of Energy Transfers | Food Chain, Food Web and Energy Pyramid |
| Food Chain | One animal eats another, simple predator prey relationships |
| Food Web | Many possible predators/prey, complex food sources |
| Energy Pyramid | A visual with the base at the bottom and the apex at the top, showing the decrease of energy |
| Producers | A group of organisms that make their own food (sugar) through photosynthesis; gets 100% of the energy from the sun |
| Consumers | Eats other organisms to obtain energy, four groups are herbivore, carnivore, omnivore and scavengers |
| Herbivore | An organism that eats plants |
| Carnivore | An organism that eats meat |
| Omnivore | An organism that eats both plants and meat |
| Scavenger | An organism that eats the remains of meals from other organisms; it only kills if it has to |
| Decomposers | An organism that breaks down the remains of dead organisms |
| Recyler | An organism that recycles resources |
| Predator | The organism that kills |
| Prey | The organism that gets killed |
| Precipitation | When the condensed clouds become to full and the liquid falls down in the form of rain, sleet, hail or snow |
| Evaporation | When the water turns into a gas (water vapor) and rises into the sky |
| Condensation | When the water vapor condenses into tiny dorplets, forming clouds |
| Transpiration | When the plants |
| Run off | When it rains/snows and there is excess water on the ground it flows into a river/stream/lake/ocean |
| Ground water | Water that falls from the clouds and seeps into the soil |
| What do plants to in the carbon cycle? | Filter carbon into oxygen |
| What do humans do in the carbon cycle? | They breathe in oxygen and out carbon dioxide. |
| What role does combustion have in the carbon cycle? | Burning things such as fossil fuels creates more carbon dioxide in the air |
| What role does decompostition have in the carbon cycle? | They release carbon dixode |
| nitogen fixing bacteria | found on the roots of plants in the pea plant family, turn nitrogen into nitrate, a for that we can use |
| sucession | when a place or organism changes naturally over time |
| limiting factors | resources such as food, water and space that can limit the populations of different species |
| carrying capacity | it is decided by the limiting factors, the number of organsims that an ecosystem can support |
| habitat | where an organism lives |
| niche | where an organism lives and its jobs there |
| main fact for tropical rainforest | most average yearly rainfall |
| secondary fact for tropical rainforest | biodiversity |
| main fact for desert | warmest climate |
| secondary fact for desert | most amount of animal adaptations |
| main fact for tundra | permafrost |
| secondary fact for tundra | trees can't grow |
| main fact for df | leaves fall off trees in fall |
| secondary fact for df | four seasons |
| what's good about biodiversity | it's a healthier ecosystem, more prey to choose from |
| what are adaptations | when an organism adapts/changes to/for its surroundings, in order to survive |
| endangered species | species that are lessening for any reason that may kill them |
