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concerned with energy flow through orgs
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| movement of energy through the ecosystem |
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# of orgs times the weight
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| linear depiction of energy flow |
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specific feeding level within a food chain
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make their own food
[primary producers]
require an energy source and inorganic nutrients
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[consumers]
need existing food source to survive |
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| use photosynthesis to store carbs |
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eat produces and store fat
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| eat herbivores and store fat |
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à eat carnivores and store fat
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| à heterotrophic bacteria, fungi, and animals |
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| 2 functions of decomposers |
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· break down nonliving organic material
· returns inorganic material back into the system
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| dead organic material being decomposed |
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feed on detritus
EARTHWORM |
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feed on both plants and animals
HUMANS |
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eats only plants
CATEPILLAR |
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eats poop only
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eats only blood
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# of species in a community
usually has a big base and small bottom, but
can sometimes be inverted
* ex. big top, small base: lots of parasites, then insect herbivores, then the oak tree
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almost always upright, w/ big base and small top
* BUT marine biomass pyramid can be inverted b/c the production rate of phytoplankton is really high
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| à NEVER INVERTEDà shows DAILY PRODUCTION OF BIOMASS |
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| non-living components in an ecosystem |
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| name the 6 prominent abiotic factors |
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water
wind
soil
temp
sunlight
inorganic nutrients |
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| the living components of an ecosys |
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| 4 main groupings of biotic factors |
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animals
plants
fungi
bacteria |
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study of ecology at the level of the individual org
includes studying physiological and behavioral ecology |
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| studying the ecology at the level of a species |
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| studying the ecology at the level of the various populations of species in a given area |
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| includes abiotic factors involved in a community |
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| the optimal range a species functions best in |
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| 2 most important factors that limit pop distribution |
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moving objects
bend right--> north
bend left--> south |
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| how big are wind cells in degrees of latitude? |
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| how many wind cells are in each hemishpere? |
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| wind cells that are in between the poles and the equator |
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| location of polar wind cells |
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| rain shadow is due to the presence of.... |
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| describe rain patterns on windward side of the mountain |
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| describe rain patterns on the leeland side of the mountain |
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a major biotic community characterized by the dominant forms of plant life and the prevailing climate
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| permanently frozen soil, helps with water retention |
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| the term to describe our climate here |
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| deserts are how many degrees north/south of the equator? and receive how much rainfall? |
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| name the 3 fire-adapted biomse |
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chaparral
prairie
savanna |
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