Science quest 10/8
Terms
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- species
- a group of individuals that belong to so similar to one another that they can produce off spring
- popilations
- a group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
- community
- assemblages of different popilations that live together in a defined area
- ecosystem
- a collection of all organisms that live in a particular place, together with their enviornment
- biome
- a group of ecosystems that have the same climate and domainant communities
- biotic
- living factors in an enviornment
- abiotic
- non living factors in an enviornment
- producer
- organism that can capture energy from sunlight or cemicals and use it to produce food from inorganic componds; autotroph
- consumer
- organism that relies on other organisms for its energy and food suply; heterotroph
- decomposer
- organism that breaks down and obtains energy from dead organic matter
- biomagnification
- the accumulation of a harmful substance (cup lab)
- niche
- the full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses thoes conditions
- competition
- occures when organisms of the same or different species attempt to us an ecogical resource in the sane place at the same time
- ecological succession
- the series of predictable changes that ocurs in a comunity over time
- tropical rain forest
- hot and wet all year
- desert
- low parcipitation and temperature varies
- marine
- varies
- tundra
- strong winds, low precipitation, short summers, long cold winters, perminantly frozen ground.
- taiga
- short summers, long and cold winters
- temperate deciduous forest
- cold winters, warm summers, parcipitation all year
- grasslands
- warm to hot summers, cold winters, seasonal precipition
- latitude and biome
- lower the lat the higher the temp
- mutualism
- both species benefit from the relationship
- commensalism
- one members of the association benifits and the other had no effect
- paasitism
- one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it
- predation
- interaction in which one organism captures and deeds on another organism