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Pregunta | Respuesta |
biosphere | the part of the Earth inhabited by organisms |
ecosystem | a community of interdependent organisms and the physical environment they inhabit |
Biotic | living part of of an ecosystem (e.g the community) |
abiotic | the non-living part of an ecosystem (e.g air, wind, temperature, water, soil, climate) |
producer | plants etc. |
primary consumer | herbivores |
secondary consumer | carnivores |
tertiary consumer | top carnivore |
trophic level | the position that an organism occupies in a food chain |
pyramid of numbers | represents the number of organisms in coexisting in an ecosystem |
pyramids of biomass | represents the amount of biological mass at each trophic level |
species | a group of organisms that interbreed and capable of producing fertile offspring |
population | a group of organisms of the same species living in the same ares at the same time with the capability of interbreeding |
community | a group of populations living and interacting with each other in a common habitat |
habitat | the environment in which a species normally lives |
niche | is a species' share of a habitat and resources - this is specific to the one specie |
mutualism | an interaction in which both species benefit |
Parasitism | relationship where one organism - the parasite - benefits at the expense of another - the host |
dichotomous keys | a methode used to identify organisms |
Biome | a collection of ecosystems sharing similar climatic conditions |
photosynthesis | the process by which plants transform carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen in the presence of light energy and chlorophyl |
respiration | this is the release of energy from food in the form of breaking down glucose using oxygen, releasing carbon dioxide, water and energy |
Gross productivity | the total gain in energy or biomass per unit area or per unit time |
net productivity | the gain in energy or biomass per unit are or time, remaining after loss of respiratory losses |
primary productivity | the gain in energy or biomass per unit are or time by producers. could be gross or net |
secondary productivity | the gain in energy or biomass per unit are or time by consumers through feeding and absorption. |
limiting factor | they restrict the growth of a population or prevent it from growing any further |
carrying capacity | this is the maximum number of species that can be sustainably supported by a given environment. |
Density dependant factors | these are limiting factors that are related to populations density. they are biotic factors. e.g and can be internal or external |
density-independant factors | these are abiotic limiting factors therefore do not depend on population size |
K - strategists | species that produce and small number of offspring thus increasing their survival rate and adapting them for living in longterm climax communities |
r - strategists | species that tend produce a large number of offspring so that they are well adapted to colonise new habitats rapidly. |
succession | this is the process of change over time in a community. changes within organisms often cause changes in the physical environment thus allowing another community to become established replacing the former one through competition |
sere | the set of communities that succeed one other over time over the course of succession at a given location |
Zonation | the arrangement of plants communities into parallel bands in response to change over distance - relates to climate and latitude or altitude |
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