Biology ecosystems

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What is a species?
A species is a group of organisms that can interbreed to produce fertile offspring of a similar type.
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What is biodiversity?
Biodiversity is the variety and abundance of living organisms found in a particular area. (The number of species in a living area)
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What is population?
The number of individual of one species found in one area
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What is a producer?
Producers are green plants that can produce their own food by photosynthesis
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What are consumers?
Consumers eat other organisms to obtain energy
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What are herbivores?
A consumer that ONLY eats plants to obtain energy. (Primary consumers)
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What are carnivores?
Carnivores only eat other animals to obtain energy.
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What are omnivores?
Consumers that eat both animals and plants to obtain energy
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What is a predator?
Predators are consumers that kill other animals to eat
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What are prey?
Prey are species that are killed by other consumers.
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What is a food chain?
A sequence of organisms which energy flows
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What are food webs?
Food webs show the paths that energy can take through an ecosystem
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What is a community?
All of the individuals of all of the species
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Habitat?
The location or zone where an organism lives.
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Ecosystem
How the community and non living things (habitat) interact.
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Interspecific competition?
Occurs amongst individuals of DIFFERENT species for the same resources they require.
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Intraspecific competition?
Occurs amongst individuals of the SAME species and for its resources required
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