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Ecosystem - Coggle Diagram
Ecosystem
Component of ecosystem
Individual, population, community
Individual
Definition: One organism and is also one type of organism
Example: human, cat, cow
Population
Definition: A group organism of the same species occupying a particular space at a particular time that can potential interbreed
Example: a population of mallard ducks, a population of cattail plants growing on the edge
Community
Definition:Interacting group of various species in a common location.
Example: A forest of trees and undergrowth plants, inhabited by animals and rooted in soil containing bacteria and fungi, constitutes a biological community.
Producer, consumer, decomposers
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Consumer
Definition: Organisms that consume other organisms to obtain their energy
Example: grasshopper living in the Everglades
Decomposers
Defintion: An organism whose ecological function involves the recycling of nutrients by performing the natural process of decomposition as it feeds on decaying organisms.
Example: fungi, bacteria, insects, bacteria
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Food chain, Food web, Pyramid of Ecology
Food chainDefintion: Food chains are a convenient way of showing the feeding relationships between a few organisms in an ecosystem, but they oversimplify the situation. Example: Grass - grasshopper - lizard
- Grass is the producer.
- Grasshopper is the primary consumer. It is an animal which eats the producer and is also a herbivore.
- The lizard is the secondary consumer. It eats the primary consumer and is also a carnivore.
The different stages in a food chain (producer, primary consumer and secondary consumer) are called trophic levels.
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Pyramid of Ecology Defintion: Ecological pyramids are diagrams that represent the relative amounts of organisms at each level in a food chain. There are two main types:
- Pyramids of numbers, which represent the numbers of organisms in each trophic level in a food chain, irrespective of their mass.
- Pyramids of biomass, which show the total mass of the organisms in each trophic level, irrespective of their numbers.
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