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| Abiotic components of Habitats |
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| Air, water, soil, temperature, wind, sun (not living) |
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| abiotic components that are in the shortest supply, impeding development |
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| Moving toward or away from some stimulus |
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| plants, other animals (living) |
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| Self feeders (plants, make their own food) |
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| feed on others (cannot make food) |
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| Metabolism declines (slows), become sluggish. (cold blooded) |
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| extreme torpor, blood temperature drops drastically (extotherms) |
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| body temperature does not drop drastically (endotherms) |
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| State of torpor, in response to heat, not lack of |
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| Group of individuals of the same species that occupy an area and comprise a breeding group |
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CHART
Type I
Type II
Type III |
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I- large mammals; reach an old age, drop off
II- birds/rodents; constant mortality rate
III- Fish/turtles; mortality rate at young age is higher than old |
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Malthus-exponential (J) curve
Environmental resistance |
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| produces (s) curve, establishes the carrying capacity |
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| the number of a population an area can sustain |
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Intraspecific- conflict within one species
Competition - conflict over limited resources |
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| animal eats another (two species) |
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| Interspecific competition |
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| conflict with two species |
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| occurs when 2 species exert a strong selective influence on one another (wolves and caribou) |
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| Two species living in a close relation |
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| beneficial for both species |
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| beneficial for one species, other species is neutral |
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| Beneficial to one species, harmful to other |
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| Octopus, squid, chameleon |
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| (fish) appear differently depending on the angle you look at |
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| Warning coloration, bright colors (frog) |
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collection of populations
-plants, rabbits, coyotes, and foxes |
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comprises all attributes of animal lifestyle
where it eats, what it eats, where it lives |
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| The sequential transition from one community to the next over a period of time |
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| brand new soil, where life has never existed (volcanos, glaciers) |
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| Succession that takes place on disturbed but not destroyed soil (fire, flood, farming, logging) |
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1st- Autotrophs
2nd- 1o herbivore
3rd- 2o carnivores
4th- 3o carnivores
5th- 4o carnivores |
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| 10% of energy is passed on to upper trophic levels. does not happen in a square. |
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| Sponges; marine, some fresh water, none terrestrial. |
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| Thin, flat cell covering the outer surface of phylum porifora |
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| Filtration cells for phylum porifora |
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| Gel-like matrix between the epidermis and gastrodermis |
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| The pores leading to the spongocoel |
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| The hole at the top of the sponge that excretes water |
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| central cavity of the sponge |
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| little spikes on the outside of the sponge |
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| protein that makes up the skeleton |
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Jellyfish, coral, sea anemone
Mostly marine, some fresh water none terrestrial |
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| Tentacles go upward (coral) |
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tentacles go downward (jellyfish)
-more mobile
-thicker misoglea |
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| outer layer of the body wall |
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| inner layer of the body wall |
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| digestive sytem of cnidarians |
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Planarian
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Duogland system -adhesive glands, releaser glands
Circular and longitudinal muscle
predators/scavengers
reproduction-asexual (binary fission) and sexual (monoecious/cross fertilization)
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-Endoparasites
-Morphology - oral sucker, tegument (special epidermis that protects from digestive enzymes)
-incomplete digestion
-Reproduction -monoecious
-complex - intermediate and final host
CHINESE LIVER FLUKE
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Tapeworms
(Cestoidea or Cestoda)
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-Body- Scolex (head), proglottids (separate egg carriers), strobila (foot)
-absent digestive system, absorbs through tegument
-Reproduction -monoecious
BEEF tapeworm |
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Phylum Nematoda
(Roundworms) |
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Cuticle - secreted by the epidermis (only latidudinal muscle)
Complete digestive system
Dioecious
Ascaris, hookworms (intestines)
Pinworms (rectum)
trichinella (blood: pigs)
filarial worm (blood: mosquito;-elephantitis)
dirofilaria- (heart, heartworms) |
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