A group of individuals of common ancestry that closely resemble each other, and are normally capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring.
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Population
A population is a group of organisms from the same species living in the same habitat at the same time
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Habitat
The habitat is the place where an organism lives
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Community
A community is the name given to all the organisms of different species living in a habitat
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Environment
The environment is the surroundings of an organism and it is made up of the abiotic (climatic/edaphic) and biotic factors that surround and organism
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Ecosystem
All the organisms together with their environment is known as an ecosystem
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Ecological Factors
These have an effect on the distribution of organisms in any environment. These factors can be divided into climatic, edaphic or biotic.
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Climatic Factors
Conditions linked directly to the climate such as temperature, light intensity, light quality, day length and availability of water
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Edaphic Factors
Factors linked to the soil of an environment. These include; pH, availability of macronutrients, availability of micronutrients and aeration of soil
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Biotic Factors
These are factors relating to the living part of the environment and include competition between organisms, predation and accumulation of waste
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Ecosystem Diversity
This represents the variety of ecosystems within the biosphere- the part of the Earth and its atmosphere that is inhabited by living organisms
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Genetic Diversity
This refers to the diversity of genes within a species quantity
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Classification Vs Taxonomy
The arrangement of organisms into groups is known as classification and the science/study of classification is called taxonomy
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Biodiversity
A reflection of both the number of species in an area and how evenly distributed the numbers of living organisms are spread across the range of species present
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Organic Pollution
The pollution of water by organic material. Organic pollutants include sewage, slurry and silage effluent
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Eutrophication
The gradual and long-term nutrient enrichment of waterways, in particular nitrates and phosphates
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A population is a group of organisms from the same species living in the same habitat at the same time
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Population
Card 3
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The habitat is the place where an organism lives
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Card 4
Front
A community is the name given to all the organisms of different species living in a habitat
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Card 5
Front
The environment is the surroundings of an organism and it is made up of the abiotic (climatic/edaphic) and biotic factors that surround and organism
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