Organisms and Environments

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  1. 4. variety of different species in an environment
  2. 5. when two or more organisms try to get the same resource
  3. 8. amount of salt content in water
  4. 9. the ability of an ecosystem to maintain long-term stability or balance and continue healthy growth without help
  5. 12. organisms that depend on others for food, they eat to obtain energy. The 1st consumer is called Primary and they are herbivores, secondary consumers eat the primary, and third level consumers are called territorry
  6. 14. living parts of the environment, such as plants and animals
  7. 16. breakdown dead organisms and decayingmatter for energy
  8. 17. repopulation of an area that starts with bare soil left behind after a disturbance (natural or man-made) with grass and weeds growing in the first stages.
  9. 18. nonliving parts of the environment, such as rocks, water, soil, air and sunlight
  10. 20. when biotic or abiotic factors rely on or influence each other
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  1. 1. shows how mater and energy is transferred from one organism to another through feeding relationships
  2. 2. organisms such as plants that make their own food from water, carbon dioxide, and light energy from the sun or those near deep sea events may use chemical energy to make their own food
  3. 3. a community of living and nonliving parts of the environment
  4. 6. water that flows across the land and into rivers and streams
  5. 7. A close relationship where both organisms survive and at least one is benefited. These can be commonsalism where one is helped and the other is not affected, parasiteism where one is helped and the other is hurt, mutualism where both are helped
  6. 10. stages of growth where initial colonization of an area starts with bare rocks, lichen break rock to prepare soil for other more complex organisms to move in.
  7. 11. mature and stable ecosystem in its final stagews of development in ecological succession
  8. 13. first organisms to colonize or live in a area
  9. 15. flow of energy passing from one organism to another in the environment. energy is conserved in the system even though some leaves the organism as heat.
  10. 19. the ability to do work, it can be transferred and transformed but is always conserved and never destroyed