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| scientific study btwn organism and the environment |
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| how can abiotic or biotic environments be classified as? |
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| -resources and conditions |
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| they influence an organism but cannot be consumed |
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| how do resources or conditions affect competition? |
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| resources make it more competitive while conditions alter the conditions for the competitiveness |
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| means household (of nature) |
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where similar organisms (plants) occur in similar climates
(relates envy with species distribution) |
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| the ability of species to survive in a a specific environment |
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| what does an ecosystem include? |
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| a biotic and abiotic community? |
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| what is a network"ecosystem"? |
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| it includes bot abiotic and biotic interactions that function as as one |
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| what is a biotic environment? |
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they are living interactions.
like everything that has cells |
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| what is an abiotic environment? |
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| what are the aspects that ecologist study? |
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| individual, population, community, and ecosystem |
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| what is an observational study? |
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it's a measurement of an independent and dependent variable.
explanatory-independent
response- dependent |
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what is a field experiment?
what are some cons/ pros? |
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it' an experiment that is performed in nature
cons- difficult to control factors
pro- they are realistic |
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| why do we need replication? |
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to achieve accurateness and cosinstency in your results
acts as a control which is a good comparison |
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| what is statistical population? |
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involve collecting data and drawing conclusions
-aka the measurements of ecological studies |
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| is that part that is observed!! |
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what are the two types of data you could have?
define them? |
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-categorical- qualitative
-numerical- quantitative (continous) |
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| what is categorical data? give examples |
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unordered
hair colour, sex |
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| what are the two values for numerical data? explain |
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-Discrete (whole numbers,
-continous data (any value within an interval, 0.5, height, weight |
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what is a histogram?
where are they placed |
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the relationship between categorical variable and continuous variable.
categorical- the x-axis, explanatory, independent
numerical- y axis, response, dependent |
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| the relationship between two independent/ continuos variables or sets of observations |
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| the relationship between two independent/ continuos variables or sets of observations |
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