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    The document discusses key concepts in ecology including organisms, populations, communities, ecosystems, biomes, and the biosphere. It defines producers as organisms that can make their own food, usually using sunlight or chemicals, and consumers as organisms that obtain energy by eating other organisms or organic matter. The main types of consumers are herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, decomposers, detritivores, and scavengers. Producers provide a source of energy that consumers rely on to survive. Together, all of the living and non-living parts of an environment interact in an ecological system.

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    Chapter 3

    The Biosphere Click to edit Master subtitle style

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    What is Ecology?

    Chapter 3 section 1

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    Organisms, Populations, Communities

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    Organisms, Populations, Communities

    Organisms individual living things Species groups of organism that can breed to make new offspring that are fertile

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    organism

    population

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    Populations

    All the members of the same species living in the same place at the same time

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    Communities

    Different populations living in same place Interact

    Only consists of the living (bio

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    Ecosystem

    Consists of the community and all the nonliving parts

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    BIOMES

    A group of ecosystems that share similar climates

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    BIOSPHERE

    The land, the water, the air and all the living things and non living things that exist there.

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    Any group of living and non-living things interacting with each other Can be as small as a puddle or as large as the Earth

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    Living and non Living Parts

    Biotic factors are the living parts of the environment

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    Abiotic factors are the nonliving parts of the environment

    Biotic

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    Abiotic

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    Energy, Producers, and Consumers

    Chapter 3 sectio

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    Source of energy

    Obtain convert Able to energy consumers Producers from eating the energy of the plantsor other sun or chemicals animals to make food

    Examples goats, spiders, bears, plants, algae, humans some bacteria

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    Producers

    With light Able to make their own food from light energy Known as 5/19/12 Autotrophs or

    Producers

    Without lig

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    Chemosyn thesis organisms take energy in chemicals and convert that into

    Producers other than plants

    It is estimated Algae that 70-80 % of earths oxygen comes from the ocean Chemosynthesis Some organism use chemicals like hydrogen sulfide to make

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    Types of Consumers

    herbivores Obtain their energy from eating plant roots, leaves, fruit, nuts, seeds

    Cows, sheep, antelope, grasshoppers

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    Types of Consumers

    carnivore Obtain their energy from killing and eating other animals

    Lions, hawk, whale, shark

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    Types of Consumers

    omnivore Obtain their energy from eating both plants and animals

    Bears, pigs, raccoons, rats, humans

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    Types of Consumers

    decomposer Obtain their energy by breaking down organic material into detritus

    Detritus small pieces of dead organisms

    They return nutrients to the soil, air, and water


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    Types of Consumers

    detrivore Obtain their energy by breaking down detritus particles into smaller pieces

    Worms, maggots, snails

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    Types of Consumers

    scavangers Obtain their energy by consuming the remains of dead organisms that they did not kill

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