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The terms needed for a grade 9 applied science unit in ecology
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Which example displays sustainable actions?
Re-use, reduce, recycle,
Reducing your use of natural resouces
throwing your garbage in the correct place
Earth hour
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what is a decomposer
a carnivore
non of the above
a herbivore
a omnivore
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What is a carnivore
A meat eater
All humans
a plant eater
a meat and plant eater
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Which best describes Carrying Capacity
the amount you can hold without dropping
inividual species that live in a certain place
resouce that imits the population size
largest population size that an ecosystem can sustain
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Define: Aquatic ecosystems
Land based ecosystems
Ancient civilations
water based ecosystems
Ancient water civilations
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Define: Decomposers
Living thing that gets energy it needs by eating others
substance that a living thing needs to sustain its life
Living thing that gets its energy by making its own food
organism that obtains energy from dead plants & animal
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What does equilibrium mean?
The weater system
a stable, balanced or unchaged system
system made up of all interacting biotic and abiotic parts
study of everything on earth both biotic & abiotic
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Define: biodiveristy
different kinds of living things in a certain place
diverse biology
an ecosystem
Diversity of species in an ecosystem
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Define: Nutrient cycle
transfering stored food from one creature to another
the pattern of continual use and re-use
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Define: Biotic
Not living things
Dead things
robots
Living things
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Define: Population
resouces the limits the size to which a population can grow
all species living in a certain place at a certain time
the largest population size a ecosystem can sustain
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Define: Cellular Respiration
Converts light energy into chemical energy
Converts usable energy into chemical energy
Converts chemical energy into light energy
Concerts chemical energy into stored energy
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What is an example of a limiting factor in ecology
Your grades
air
food
money
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Define: Photosynthesis
Converts stored usable energery into chemical energy
Converts stored chemical energy into usable energy
converts light energy to chemical energy
converts chemical energy into heat
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Define: Terrestrial ecosystem
water based ecosystems
Land based ecosystems
Ancient civilation
ancient water civilations
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Define: Food web
Producers
decsribes how energy is transfered through an ecosystem
energy is transfered from one living thing to another
Consumers
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Define: Abiotic
Dead things
Living things
Old things
Not living things
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What is a herbivore
eats both plants and meat
something that eats dead things
a meat eater
a meat eater
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Define: Biodiversity
All the different species that live in an ecosystem
Species introduced into an ecosystem
T he cells of living things convert into energy
The same species that live in an ecosystem
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Define: Ecology
Study of relationship between aquatic and terrestrial
Study of relationship between dead stuff and the environment
Study of relationships between species
Study of the relationship between things and the environment
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Define: Producer
A film maker
a condutor or music
Living thing that gets energy it needs by eating consumers
Living thing that gets its energy by makings its own food
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Define: Consumer
You
Plants
Living things that makes its own energy
Decomposer
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Introduced species has been introduced into an ecosystem where it was not naturally found
True
False
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Species diversity in an ecosystem depends on
number and variety of different species living in an area
the number of introduced species
number of herbivore
number of omnivores
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What is a watershed?
a lake
Any area of land that drains into a body of water
Rain water