ALL UNITS VOCABULARY ETC

Literally all the units vocabulary, you're welcome

(1.1) Community

all living organisms in an area

(1.1) Ecosystem

all living and nonliving things in an area(plants, animals, rocks)

(1.1) Individual

One organism

(1.1) Population

group of individuals of same species

(1.1) Biomes

large area w/similar climate that determine plant and animal species there (ex. tropical rainforest)

or a geographic region that is characterized by a certain climate and diverse presence of plants and animals

(1.1) Competition

organisms fighting over a resource like food or shelter, limits pop size

(1.1) Predation

One organism using another for energy source

(1.1) Mutualism

relationship that benefits both organisms (ex. coral reef, fish)

(1.1) Commensalism

relationship that benefits one and doesn’t impact other (ex. birds nesting in trees)

(1.1) Herbivores

(Plant eaters) eat plants plants for energy

(1.1) True Predators (carnivores)

kill and eat prey for energy

(1.1) Parasites

use a host organism for energy, often w/o killing host and often living inside host (ex. mosquitos, tapeworms, sea lampreys)

(1.1) Parasitoids

Lay eggs inside host organism; eggs hatch and eat host for energy (ex. parasitic wasps)

(1.1) Symbiosis

and close and long-term interaction between two organisms of diff species

(Mutualism, commensalism, parasitism)

Coral provides reef structure and CO2 for algae, algae provides sugars for energy for coral

(1.1) Resource partitioning

diff species using same resources in diff ways to reduce competition

(1.1) Temporal Partitioning

Using resources at diff times (ex. wolves and coyotes hunt at different times of day)

(1.1) Spatial Partitioning

using diff areas of a shared habitat

(1.1) Morphological Partitioning

Using diff resources based on diff evolved body features

(1.3) Salinity

How much salt in a body of water

(1.3) Depth

How much sunlight can penetrate and reach plants below surface for photosynthesis

(1.3) Flow

Whish plants and organisms can survive, how much O2 can dissolve in water

(1.3) Temp

Warmer water holds less dissolved O2 so it can support less orgs.

(1.3) Lakes

standing bodies of fresh water

(1.3) Littoral zone

shallow water with emergent plants

(1.3) Limnetic zone

Where light can reach for photosynthesis (No rooted plants here, only phytoplankton)

(1.3) Profundal zone

too deep for sunlight to penetrate for photosynthesis

(1.3) Benthic zone

Murky water where invertebrates(bugs) live, has nutrient rich sediments

(1.3) Wetlands

area with soil submerged/saturated in water for at least part of the year, but shallow enough for emergent plants

-plants adapt to roots submerged in water

(1.3) Estuaries

areas where rivers empty into the ocean

-mix of fresh and salt water(species adapts, ex. mangrove trees)

-high NPP

(1.3) Salt Marsh

Estuary habitat alone coast in temperate climates

(1.3) Mangrove Swamps

Estuary habitat along coast of tropical climates

(1.3) Coral Reef

Warm shallow waters beyond shoreline'

-most diverse marine biome on Earth

-mutualistic relationship between coral and algae

(1.3) Intertidal zones

narrow band of coastline between light and low tide

(1.3) Open ocean

low productivity area (only algae and phytoplankton survive in most oceans)

(1.3) Photic zone

area where sunlight can reach/penetrate (photosyn)

(1.3) Aphotic zone (abyssal)

area too deep for sunlight to penetrate (no photosyn)