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| The study of living organisms and how they interst with each other and the environment |
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| Factors that are living components of an ecosystem |
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| Factors that are non-living components of an ecosystem |
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| An organism that produces its own food |
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| An organism that eats other organisms |
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| An organism that feeds off dead organisms |
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| An organism that breaks down dead organisms and feeds off these products |
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| Specific space where an organism lives in its environment |
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| Role that an organism plays in its ecosystem |
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| The whole Earth / A collection of biomes |
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| Solid outer layer of Earth, where life exists |
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| All Earth's water, both fresh and salt |
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| The blanket of air that surrounds the Earth |
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| A small part of the Earth where living and non-living components interact |
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| An organism that eats plants and animals |
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| An organism that eats only plants |
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| An organism that eats only other animals |
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| The feeding level of an organism in a food chain |
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| An organism that is the first one to eat another organism in a food chain AKA herbivore |
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| An organism that eats a herbivore and is the 3rd organism in a food chain |
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| An organism that is at the top of the food chain, and not eaten by anything else |
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| Visual representation of the feeding relationships of several organisms |
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| Visual representation showing the interconnection of several food chains |
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| A group of cells similar in shape and functions |
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| A group of tissues that work together to perform a specific task |
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| A group of organs with related functions |
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| A collection of organ systems/A living thing |
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| A group of individuals of the same species living together in same area at the same time |
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| All of the different individual species living in the same area, made of several populations |
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| A large geographical area with a consistent climate and dominant type of vegetation (made of several communities) |
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| Organism that hunts and eats other animals |
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| An animals that is hunted/eaten by a predator |
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| First Law of Thermodynamics |
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| Energy is not created or destroyed, just changes form |
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| Second Law of Thermodynamics |
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| Energy is lost with every transfer in the form of heat |
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| Changing sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into oxygen, sugar and heat |
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| The conversion of sugar and oxygen into carbon dioxide, water and ATP |
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| The loss of nutrients into soil and the build up of water |
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| A species that is no longer found anywhere |
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| A species that is close to extinction in all parts of Canada or in a significantly large location |
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| Any species that no longer exists in Canada, but is found in other locations |
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| Any species that is likely to becomes endangered if factors that make is vulnerable are not reversed |
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| Any species that is at risk because of low of declining numbers |
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| Maximum population size that can be maintained |
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| Individuals entering the population from other areas |
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| Number of babies per birth |
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| Number of offspring that reach the reproductive age |
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| The number of times a species can reproduce in one year |
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| Length of Reproductive Life |
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| How long between age of sexual maturity and the end of reproductive ability |
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| Individuals leaving the population to other areas |
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| Factors decreasing population size |
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| All factors acting, most natural ecosystems |
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| No immigration or emigration, only natality and mortality (The whole Earth) |
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| Maximum population size of a given species that an ecosystem can support without affecting it |
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| A number of organisms below which will result in the extinction of a species |
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| When a population does not chance in a numbers over a period of time (births + immigration) = (deaths + emigration) |
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| The amount of time it takes a species to double in size |
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| Population is at equilibrium, gaining and losing population at the same rate (no over all change in population) |
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| Light, temperature, wind, moisture |
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| Increase in concentration of a toxin in a tissue of an organism over time |
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| Biomagnification/bioamplification |
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| Increase in concentration of a toxin in a tissue of an organism the higher it is on the food chain |
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