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Bio 11 Ecology
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Carrying Capacity | The number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container or ecosystem |
| Climax Community | A historical term that expressed a biological community of plants and animals and fungi which, through the process of succession - the development of vegetation through time, had reached a steady state |
| Chemical Equations | A symbolic representation of a chemical reaction where in the reactant entities are giving on the left side, and product entities are given to the right. |
| Cellular Respiration | Metabolic process where by certain organisms obtain energy from organic molecules. |
| Commensalism | Association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit or harm. |
| Consumer | Organisms of an ecological food chain that receive energy by consuming other organisms |
| Cyclic Growth | When a population growth occurs when there is a low amount of population. |
| Decomposer | An organism that decomposes organic material. |
| Density - dependent factors | Factors such as resource availability which vary with population density |
| Density independent factors | A factor that affects the size of a population independent or regardless of the population density. |
| Ecological Succession | The gradual and orderly change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another stable climax is established |
| Energy flow | Refers to the flow of energy through a food chain. |
| Exponential Growth | Growth who's rate becomes more rapid in proportion to the growing total number in size |
| Logistic growth | Where growth rate constantly decreases with the increasing number of individuals |
| Mutualism | The relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association |
| Parasitisn | Relationships between two organisms in which two organisms in which two different kinds of organisms where one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it. |
| Photosynthesis | Process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesis foods from carbon dioxide and water. |
| Pioneer species | First to stablished itself in an area which was disrupted or damaged. |
| Population | All the inhabitants of a particular area |
| Producer | Organisms that act as a food source for other organisms |
| Reactants | Things which react with other things |
| Steady State | State where in which all resources except the processor are available |
| Products | Manufactured |
| Pyramid of Energy | Ecological pyramid is a representation designed to show the biomass or biomass productivity at each tropic level. |
| Symbiosis | Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association typically to the advantages of both. |
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