Question 1

A term that describes the nonliving factors in an ecosystem

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Abiotic

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The artificial cultivation of food, fiber, and other goods by the systematic growing and harvesting of various organisms

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Agriculture

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A term that describes an organism associated with a water environment

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Aquatic

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The changing of organic matter into other chemical forms such as fuels

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Biochemical Conversion

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The movement of abiotic factors between living and non living components within an ecosystem; also known as the nutrient cycle (i.e. water cycle)

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Biogeochemical Cycles

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A large area or geographical region with distinct plant and animal groups adapted to that environment

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Biome

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The zone of life on Earth; sum total of all ecosystems on Earth

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Biosphere

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A term that describes a living or once living organism in an ecosystem

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Biotic

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Different populations of organisms interacting in a shared environment

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Community

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When individuals or groups of organisms compete for similar resources such as territory, mates, food, and water in the same environment

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Competition

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An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms or their remains

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Consumer

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An organism that obtains nutrients by consuming dead

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Decomposer

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The study of the relationships between organisms and their interactions with the environment

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Ecology

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A system composed of organisms and nonliving components of an environment

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Ecosystem

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A model that illustrates the biomass productivity at multiple trophic levels in a given ecosystem

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Energy Pyramid

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The total surroundings of an organism or a group of organisms

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Environment

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A simplified path illustrating the passing of potential chemical energy (food) from one organism to another organism

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Food Chain

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A complex arrangement of interrelated food chains illustrating the flow of energy between interdependent organisms

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Food Web

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An area that provides an organism with its basic needs for survival

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Habitat

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Features behaviors, morphology, or genetics which serve to prevent mating or breeding between two species

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Isolating Mechanisms

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a situation in which individuals are active at different times of the day, seasons, or mating periods

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Temporal Isolation

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In which individuals only mate in their specific habitat

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Ecological Isolation

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When there is no sexual cues between representatives of a species

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Behavioral Isolation

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When there is no sperm transfer during attempted mating

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Mechanical Isolation

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Where there is sperm transfer without fertilization occuring

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Gamete Incompatibility

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-Zygotic Mortality - fertilization with no zygote

-Hybrid Inviability - Embryo is not viable

-Hybrid Sterility - resulting adult is sterile

-Hybrid Breakdown - first generation is viable but future generations are not

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4 Factors that prevent hybrid vitality

Question 27

Chemical or physical factor that limits the existence, growth, abundance, or distribution of an individual organism

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Limiting Factor

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A species normally living outside a distribution range that has been introduced through either deliberate or accidental human activity; also known as introduced, invasive, alien, nonindigenous, or exotic

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Nonnative Species

Question 29

A form of life; an animal, plant, fungus, protist, or bacterium

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Organism

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A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific geographical area and reproducing

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Population

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The study of short and long term changes in the number of individuals for a given population, as affected by birth, death, immigration, and emigration

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Population Dynamics

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An organism that uses a primary energy source to conduct photosynthesis or chemosynthesis

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Producer

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A series of predictable and orderly changes within an organism over time

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Succession

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A relationship between two organisms (Mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism)

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Symbiotic Relationship

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A term that describes an organism associated with a land environment

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Terrestrial

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The position of an organism in relation to the flow of energy and inorganic nutrients through an ecosystem (producer, consumer etc.)

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Trophic Level

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