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Wild Life Conservationscientist who studies plants - ANS-Botanist
mammals - ANS-Mammalogist
fish scientist - ANS-icthyologist
studies reptiles and amphibians - ANS-Herpetologist
scientist who studies birds - ANS-ornithologist
Any living thing - ANS-Organism
many of the same type of living thing in an area - ANS-population
the many different species that live together in a habitat - ANS-community
A community of organisms and their abiotic environment - ANS-ecosystem
a land or water area with the same climate that has the same types of plants and animas -
ANS-biome
The global ecosystem, the sum of all the plants, ecosystems - ANS-Biosphere
but matter and energy can be recycled - ANS-Earth is a closed system
New Materials coming in an Out - ANS-WE don't have?
Energy - ANS-Sun gives us
living things (plants, people, animals) - ANS-Biotic
non living things (sunlight, rainfall, wind) - ANS-abiotic
We eat something - ANS-How do we get materials like carbon and nitrogen?
Place where an organism lives - ANS-Habitat
An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living. - ANS-niche
Silent Spring - ANS-Rachel Carson wrote
, use up the earth, it's here for the people and people only, take as much as possible. -
ANS-Frontier Ethic
use the earth but also put back things in order to help for the future - ANS-sustainable
development
where land meets ocean (beach) - ANS-Intertidal Zone
open ocean - ANS-pelagic zone
The bottom surface of an aquatic environment. - ANS-benthic zone
sunlight region near the surface of water - ANS-photic zone
permanently dark - ANS-aphotic zone
submerged parts of continents - ANS-Continental shelves
warm tropical waters, provide food and nutrients for baby fish - ANS-Coral Reefs
area where a freshwater stream merges with an ocean - ANS-Estuaries
Covered with water permanently or periodically. Important for water because it is a natural filter -
ANS-Wetlands
Pollution, people taking or blowing them up, smothering - ANS-Coral reefs are dying because
lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and wetlands - ANS-Freshwater Biomes
Number of individuals per unit area - ANS-population density
the way individuals are spaced within their area - ANS-dispersion pattern
Patches of organisms (breeding grooming and safety) - ANS-Clumped/Herds
Even spacing between orgainsms - ANS-Uniform/Territory
organisms all over the place - ANS-Random
massive growth under ideal growths (j curve) - ANS-exponential growth model
population will grow to hit carrying capacity (S curve) - ANS-Logistic growth model
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