This blog will help you prepare for the Elementary PRAXIS exam for those who want to teach at the elementary level in US schools. This is the certification exam required.
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ECOLOGICAL TERMS AND DEFINTIONS WORTH KNOWING
TERMS USED IN ECOLOGY
abiotic | nonliving parts of the environment |
autotroph | an organism that produces its own food; the source of energy for all other living things on earth |
biodiversity | the variety of species in an area |
biosphere | all of Earth's ecosystems, collectively; the biologically inhabited portions of Earth, including all of the water, land, and air in which organisms survive |
biotic | the living parts of the environment |
carnivore | an organism that survives by eating animals |
carrying capacity | the largest population of any single species that an area can support |
community | a combination of all the different populations that live and interact in the same environment |
competition | the struggle between organisms for the same limited resources in a particular area |
consumer | an organism that obtains its energy from producers |
decomposer | an organism, generally a bacterium or fungus, that consumes (eats) dead organisms and organic waste |
ecology | the study of how living things interact with one another and with their environment |
ecological niche | the specific role played by an organism or a population of organisms in the ecosystem |
ecological succession | the process by which an existing community is replaced by another community |
ecosystem | all the living and nonliving things that interact in a specific area; a subdivision of the environment |
energy pyramid | a diagram showing how food energy moves through the ecosystem |
environment | every living and nonliving thing that surrounds an organism |
food chain | a representation that identifies the specific feeding relationships among organisms |
food web | a representation of many interconnected food chains that shows the feeding relationships among producers, consumers, and decomposers |
habitat | the place where an animal or plant lives |
herbivore | an organism that eats only plants |
heterotroph | an organism that cannot make its own food; consumers |
host | the organism in a parasitic relationship that provides a home and/or food for the parasite |
limiting factors | any factor in the environment that limits the size of a population |
parasite | an organism that survives by living and feeding on other organisms |
population | all the individuals of a single species that live in a specific area |
predator | an animal that hunts and kills other animals for food |
prey | an animal that is hunted and killed by predators |
producer | an organism that makes its own food from light energy and inorganic materials |
scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
biome | a climax community of plants and animals that covers a large geographic region |
saprophytes | organisms that feed on dead and decaying organisms, includes heterotrophic plants, bacteria, and fungi |
omnivores | animals that feed on both plants and animals |
climax community | final stable stage in an ecological succession |
energy flow | the movement of energy through an ecosystem |
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
WISHING YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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LIVE LESSON ON THE BODY SYSTEMS
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HAVE A HAPPY AND FRUITFUL NEW YEAR!
Tissues in living organisms undergo constant change and renewal. The old gives way to the new and a new dawn arises. The night is overtaken by the daylight and joy comes in the morning. Life is about the search for rejuvenation and keeping up with it. As we enter the new year, endeavor to live the old self behind and search for ways to rejuvenate your mind, body, and soul. Leave all malice, anger, hurts, disappointments, deceit, hatred, evil deeds, animosities, and all forms of vices behind you. The old self needs to be regenerated for the new year. If you do that, you are sure to launch yourself into a peaceful, prosperous, and a happy new year. A new you will eventually be unearthed and all your relationships and interactions will hit a new level of success. By pruning yourself of the things that set you back in the year 2019 and putting on the new garment of potential things that will bring success you set yourself up for the upward calling of your maker. You are destined for glory but you can only realize that if you remain connected and firmly rooted to your maker.