Wild Life Conservation
-few offspring
-high parental investment
-common with internal fertilization
-stable environments - ANS-K strategists
1.) all bodies are made of carbon plants/animals
2.) living things die they become fossil fuels coal from plants
3.) burning dead bodies leads to co2
4.) plants take co2 to make photosynthesis
5.) life animals breath out carbon dioxide
6.) oceans absorb carbon - ANS-Carbon Cycle
100e 10e 1e .1e .01e - ANS-producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary
consumer -> quaternary consumer
3 types of living or symbiosis - ANS-symbiotic
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
A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is
unaffected - ANS-Commensalism
A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is
harmed - ANS-Parasitism
A series of predictable and orderly changes within an ecosystem over time. - ANS-Succession
An organism's particular role in an ecosystem, or how it makes its living. - ANS-niche
Any living thing - ANS-Organism
area where a freshwater stream merges with an ocean - ANS-Estuaries
balanced out between species - ANS-relative abundance
, between members of same species and members of different species - ANS-competition
boomers, watch shape - ANS-USA
but matter and energy can be recycled - ANS-Earth is a closed system
consumer, other feeder - ANS-Hetertroph
Covered with water permanently or periodically. Important for water because it is a natural filter -
ANS-Wetlands
dogs, cats, wezels,snakes - ANS-carnivore
each level loses 90% - ANS-Food chains cab any length until the energy runs out
eats dead bodies, vultures - ANS-scavenger
Energy - ANS-Sun gives us
evaporation-condensation-transpiration- (water comes from plants)-sublimation(solid to gas)
-precipitation- snowmelt runoff-infiltration (water soaks intro ground) back to evaporation. -
ANS-water cycle
Even spacing between orgainsms - ANS-Uniform/Territory
First species to populate an area during primary succession - ANS-pioneer species
fish scientist - ANS-icthyologist
have lots of babies, could be large # of eggs - ANS-R strategists
include fire, flood, volcanic, drought, helps disrupts ecosystems by removing organisms -
ANS-disturbances
keeping another out of your habitat and niche, more competitive - ANS-completive exclusion
lakes, ponds, rivers, streams and wetlands - ANS-Freshwater Biomes
life can come back - ANS-Succession 1
limit populations growth by killing off members.. because of Density dependent/independent -
ANS-Limiting factors
living things (plants, people, animals) - ANS-Biotic
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