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Understanding Ecosystems and Species Dynamics

The document defines key terms related to ecology including: - Species, population, community, and ecosystem, with ecosystem defined as different communities interacting with their physical and biological environment. - The biosphere is the region of Earth that supports life. - Organisms have roles in communities and live in habitats. - Producers, consumers, and decomposers make up food chains and webs, with energy transferring between trophic levels. - Ecological succession over time can lead to climax communities.

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Understanding Ecosystems and Species Dynamics

The document defines key terms related to ecology including: - Species, population, community, and ecosystem, with ecosystem defined as different communities interacting with their physical and biological environment. - The biosphere is the region of Earth that supports life. - Organisms have roles in communities and live in habitats. - Producers, consumers, and decomposers make up food chains and webs, with energy transferring between trophic levels. - Ecological succession over time can lead to climax communities.

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Species

 Groups of individuals with the same gen pool or genetic characteristics and is
capabit of interbreeding with one another.

Population
 Group of same species occupying a specific geographic are and time.

Community
 Group of different populations distributed into a specific georgraphic are.

Ecosystem
 Different communities working as a unit, interacting with both its physical and
biological environment.

Biosphere
 Region of the earth where life exists.

Population
 Group of interbreeding individuals

Ecosystem
 Unit of interrelationship between the living ang non-living thing.

Non-living
 Abiotic factors in the environment

 Ability to withstand a certain environmental condition.

Biotic Factors
 Dogs, chickens, frogs and trees are all

 Organism’s role in a community is its _____ and where it lives is it’s _____

Decomposers
 Organisms that break down organic matter are

Biosphere
 Portion of the earth that supports life.

Sunlight
 Abiotic factor that is responsible in the productivity of aquatic plants.

Acid
 Soil with pH below 7.0 and can turn blue litmus paper to red is a/an
Detritus
 Organic remains in water and in soil that are in the final stage of
decomposition.

Grass
 The following are heterotrops except

Rain
 The following are catastrophic disturbances that devastate biological
communities, except

Feeding Level
 Tropic level is a/an

Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers


 Human function primarily at which trophic levels.

Producers
 Beginning of every food chain in an ecosystem.

Secondary Consumer
 A wolf wats a rabbit that eats grass on a prairie. A wolf is

Primary Consumer
 Corn eating chicken is an example of a

Decomposer
 Fungi are examples of a

Primary Consumer
 Grasshopper is an example of a

Producer
 Moss in the understory of a forest is a

Producer
 Phytoplankton are examples of a

Second
 Tropic level for carnivore.

Primary Consumers
 Herbivores can also called

10%
 Amount of energy taken in any feeding level and it is passed to the next feeding
level is
Ecological Succession
 Process by which the mix of species and habitat in an area changes over time.

Matured Forest
 Example of a climax maturity is a

Climax Community
 Fully functioning ecosystem is called

Pioneer Micro-organisms
 Primary successions are

Halosere
 Plant succession that begins in salty or saline water.

Barren Area
 Examples of secondary succession are

Biomes
 Any major regional biological community such as that of forest or desert

Ecosystem
 Refers to the local environment

Habitat
 Ecosystem with a large community of living organisms surviving on specific
climate conditions, temperature, soil quality, vegetation, and water availability

Arthur Transley
 American ecologist who first describe the plants and animals in a given habitat

Tundra
 Located at the northernmost parts of the globe and is defined by long, cold
winters and cool summers

Taiga
 Boreal forest is also called

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