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Ecosystem

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

ECOSYSTEM

  • A community and its physical emviroment
  • A swamp with plants, animals, insects, and the water

BIOSPHERE

  • All communities on earth including, air, water and earth
  • The earth

COMMUNITY

  • All populations found in a particular area
  • The African grass lands

POPULATION

  • All members of the same species in the same area
  • Elephants in Africa grass lands

EXPONENTIAL GROWTH

  • A rapid increase in a population resultinh in J shaped curve on graph
  • Many buffalo on the prairie

AUTOTROPHS

  • Require only inorganic nutrients or an outside source to produce energy
  • Producers
  • Plants

HETEROTROPHS

  • Need preformed source of organic nutrients, consumers
  • Wolves

HERBIVORES

  • A consumer or heterotroph that feeds only on plants or algae
  • Giraffes

CARNIVORE

  • Animals that feed on other animals
  • Vultures

OMNIVORE

  • Animals that feed on both plants and animals
  • Pigs