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SLS Bio Ecology (CG)
SLS Bio11 Ecology (CG)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| carrying capacity | the amount of organisms a specific area can hold without leading to the decline of organism population |
| Cellular respiration | the process that takes part hand in hand with photosynthesis, using its products to give fuel for other organisms |
| Chemical Equations | the written process in which chemicals interact and go through. |
| climax community | the point where an area can hold two or more species allowing them to live there indefinitely |
| commensalism | a biotic relationship where one of the organisms involves where the other organism is neither harmed or helped |
| Consumer | an organisms that relies off of producers and their products |
| cyclic growth | a pattern population numbers take on when two species depend on each others population to grow and fall |
| decomposer | an organism that lives to break down dead matter in order to return their nutrients back into the soil |
| density dependent factors | a variable that effects the growth of population numbers |
| density independent factors | a variable that has no effect on the rise and fall of population numbers |
| ecological succession | the process an area goes through to evolve by the means of the organisms inhabiting there. |
| energy flow | the amount of energy that gets passed on thorough trophic levels |
| exponential growth | for population numbers to grow extremely quickly and vigorously |
| logistic growth | population pattern that at first resembles exponential growth until it is paralyzed and forced to stop/level out |
| mutualism | a biotic relationship where both the organisms involved benefit from their doings. |
| parasitism | a biotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other is harmed from the actions taken on by one of the organisms |
| photosynthesis | the process which plants/consumers take in sunlight and CO2 to produce oxygen, H2O, and glucose the reactants in cellular respiration. |
| pioneer species | the first species to take inhabitance in a primary succeeded environment Ex.Lichen |
| population | the number of specific species living in a specific area |
| producer | an organism that takes energy from the sun, most basic level of energy flow most commonly found as plants |
| products | matter that comes out of reactions chemical and biotic |
| pyramid of energy flow | the hierarchical flow of energy from producers to all types of consumers |
| reactants | matter that combine and take on different changes to produce products chemical and biotic |
| steady state | the action of an area to be stable in resources, population, and size |
| sysmbiosis | broader way to look at mutualism and the action of mutually benefit organisms in a relationship |
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