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| THe study of connections in the natural world |
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| 5 levels of ecosystem organization |
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| biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism |
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| 4 spheres of earths life support systems |
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| atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithospehre, biosphere |
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| one way flow of energy and cycling of matter |
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| high quality solar energy through materials and living things produces low quality energy. ENergy cannot be recycled. |
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| ecological pyramids of energy flow; |
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| a diagram representing the flow of energy through each trophic level in a food chain or food web |
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| biomass is the dry weight of all organic matter contianed in its organisms |
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| matter cycles; water, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, sulfur |
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| matter cycles thorugh parts of the biosphere greenhouse gases trap heat to warm troposphere |
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| all organisms that are the same number of energy tranfers away from the original source of energy. (for example sunlgiht enters an ecosystem. all producers belong to the first trophic level and all herbivores belong to the second trophic level in a food chain or food web. |
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| plant eating organism such as dere sheep, grasshoppers and zooplankton. |
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| animal that feeds on other animals (meat) |
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| consumer organism that feeds on detritus parts of dead organism and cast off fragments and wastes of lving organism. ex are earthworms, termites, and crabs |
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| animal that can use both plants and other animals as food sources ex are pigs, rats, and cockaroaches |
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| organism that feeds on dead organism that were killed by other organisms or died naturally examples include vulture roragism s, flies and crows. |
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| component that makes up the biosphere and its ecosystem consist of nonliving components such as water air, nturietns, and solar energy. |
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| consist of living and once living biological components, plants animals, and microbes, and dead organisms. |
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| the distribution of a species in an ecosystem is determined by levels of one or more physical or chemical factors being within the range tolerated by that species |
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| also called autotrophs, they make their own food from compounds in the environment |
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| also called heterotrophs, and feed on other organisms or their remains. |
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| break down organic detritus bacteria into simpler organic compounds |
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| food chain and food web, food chain prodcuers belong to the first trophic level, primary consumers belong to the second trophic level, and secondary consumers belogn to the third, and detrivores and decomposers process detritus from all trophic levels. |
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| the rate at which an ecosystem's producers convert solar energy into chemical energy as biomass is found into their tissues |
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| rate at whic all the plants in an ecosystem produce useful chemical energy; equal to the difference betwen betwen the rate at which the plants in acn ecosystem produce useful hmical energy GPP at rate which they use some of the energy of respiration. |
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| a process that converts carbon dioide tinto organic compounds especially sugars usign energy from the sunlight. |
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| uses oxygen to convert glucose back into carbon dioxide and water |
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| series of organisms in which each eats or decomposes the previous one |
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| interconnected food chains that shows how proudcers, consumers, and decomposers are connected to one anothe as energy flows thorgh trophic levels |
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