Environmental Science C2 & C3
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- Non-living parts of an ecosystem.
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What are Abiotic Factors?
p35 - An inherited trait that increases an organism's chance for survival & reproduction in a certain environment.
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What is Adaptation?
p46 - Living parts of an ecosystem
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What is Biotic Factors?
p.35. - Two/more species evolving in response to each other.
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What is Co-evolution?
p. 46. - Relationship between two species in which one specie benefits and the other is neither harmed/helped.
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What is Commensalism?
p42. - A group of interacting populations of different species.
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What is a Community?
p. 37. - The relationship between species that attempt to use the same limited resource.
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What is Competition?
p. 40. - All living organisms in a certain area as well as their physical environment
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What is an Ecosystem?
p. 34. - Change in the genetic characteristics of a population from one generation to the next.
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What is Evolution?
p. 44. - The irreversible disappearance of a population or species.
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What is Extinction?
p. 46. - A place where an organism lives.
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What is a Habitat?
p. 38. - Organism from which a parasite takes its nourishment.
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What is a Host?
p. 41. - A relationship between two species in which both benefit.
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What is Mutualism?
p. 41. - A term used to describe the unequal survival and reproduction of organisms that results from the presence or absence of particular inherited traits.
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What is Natural Selection?
p. 43. - An organism's way of life
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What is Niche?
p. 38. - An individual living thing.
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What is an Organism?
p. 37 - An organism that lives in or on another organism and feeds on it without immediately killing it.
- What is a Parasite? p.41.
- The relationship between a parasite and its host.
- What is Parasitism? p. 41
- A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place.
- What is a Population? p. 37.
- The act of killing and eating another organism.
- What is Predation? p. 39.
- An organism that kills and eats another organism.
- What is a Predator? p. 39.
- An organism that is killed and eaten by a predator.
- What is Prey? p. 39.
- A group of organisms that are able to produce fertile offspring and that resemble each other, in appearance, behavior, & internal structure.
- What are Species? p. 37.
- Consumer that eats only other consumers.
- What is a Carnivore? p. 57.
- The process of breaking down food to yield energy.
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What is Cellular Respiration?
p. 57. - Final, Stable community that forms when lands are left undisturbed.
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What is a Climax Community?
p.67 - An organism that gets its energy by eating other organisms; a heterotroph
- What is a Consumer? p. 56.
- A consumer that gets its food by breaking down dead organisms.
- What is a Decomposer? p.57
- The sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats and is then eaten by another.
- What is a Food Chain? p.59
- Diagram showing feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
- What is a Food Web? p.60
- Consumer that eats only producers.
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What is a Herbivore?
p. 57. - Bacteria that convert nitrogen gas from the atmosphere into a form that plants can use.
- What are Nitrogen-Fixing Bacteria? p. 64.
- Consumers that eat both plants and animals.
- What is an Omnivore? p.57
- First organisms to colonize any newly available area and start the process of succession.
- What are Pioneers? p. 67.
- Rain, sleet, hail, snow that has condensed from water vapor in the atmosphere and returns to Earth's surface.
- What is Precipitation? p. 63.
- Succession that occurs in areas where no ecosystem has existed previously.
- What is Primary Succession? p. 69.
- An organism that makes its own ; autotroph
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What is a Producer?
p. 56. - Pattern of change in an area where an ecosystem has previously existed.
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What is Secondary Succession?
p. 67. - The regular pattern of changes over time in the types of species in a community.
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What is Succession.
p. 66 - A step in the transfer of energy through an ecosystem.
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What is Trophic Levels?
p. 60 - The continual process by which water circulates between the atmosphere and Earth.
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What is the Water Cycle?
p. 62.