Ecology 2024

Non-living parts of an ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

• ecosystem

• ecology

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Means "self-feeders" aka producers

• autotoph

• heterotroph

• sun

• sugar

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The variety of living things in a particular ecosystem

• symbiosis

• succession

• food web

• biodiversity

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Ecosystems around the Earth with specific climates and organisms

• population

• community

• biome

• organ

Living (or once-living) parts of an ecosystem

• abiotic

• biome

• biotic

• producer

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The series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, mostly involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.

• carbon footprint

• carbon cycle

• carbon-based lifeforms

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

6O₂ + C₆H₁₂O₆ ---> 6CO₂ + 6H₂O

• respiration equation

• photosynthesis equation

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A type of symbiosis where 1 species benefits and 1 is unharmed

• mutualism

• parasitism

• competition

• commensalism

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All the populations of different species that inhabit and share an area

• organism

• population

• community

• ecosystem

A common demand by two or more organisms upon a limited supply of a resource;

for example, food, water, light, space, mates, nesting sites.

• competition

• parasitism

• mutualism

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