Chapter 9 Vocab by Adeline Fralick

Habitat

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A place where a species lives

Ecology

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A type of biology that deals with animals or other animals

Biotic

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When something lives in an ecosystem

Abiotic

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Something not living in an ecosystem

Ecological niche

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When a species has to live in a specific place

Predator

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Something that hunts prey

Prey

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When something is being hunted and is lower on the food web

DDT

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A spray or chemical that's harmful to fish

Consumer

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When something has to eat something else to get it's energy

Herbivore

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When something eats plants or algae

Carnivore

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When a fish/ marine animal eats other animals

Omnivore

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When an animal eats both plants and other animals

Decomposer

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Organisms that help break down other dead animals

Food Chain

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When there's a order things eat in

Food Web

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Interlocks a food chain to that specifically

Symbiosis

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When two organisms interact with each other

Mutualism

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When two organisms interact and it helps them

Commensalism

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When one gets something good out of the interaction but the other doesn't

Parasitism

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When something lives on something else

Cleaning associations

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When something cleans the other organisms

Symbiont

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When something lives with something else

Host

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Lets another organisms live in their body

Phytoplankton

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Tiny plants

Zooplankton

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Small animals that you cant see

Biological diversity

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Diversity of life on earth

Trophic level

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Hierarchical of levels in the ecosystem

Detritivore

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A type of heterotroph that eats decaying or dead and decaying matter

Detritus

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Dead material and was dissolved by organic matter

Benthic

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When something lives on the bottom of the sea floor

Pelagic

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A region between the bottom of the lake and the shore

Plankton

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Matter that is carried by tides and currents

Nekton

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Things that can swim on their own

DOM

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Highest part of the hierarchy

Pyramid of Energy

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The energy within trophic levels

Pyramid of Numbers

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Shows numbers of individual organisms

Exponential Population Growth

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Population of growth tells will get larger

Competitive exclusion

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When two species cant live together

Bioaccumulation

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Chemicals evolving overtime

Biomagnification

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The rise of substances caused by environments

Interspecific competition

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Competition of individuals species

Intraspecific competition

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Same species competition