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Mbio Module 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | The study of the relationship between an organism and its environment |
| Abiotic | The nonliving part of an environment |
| Biotic | The living part of an environment |
| Carrying capacity | The largest population size that can be supported by a specific area with its available resources |
| Limiting resources | A factor required for a population to grow, but present in small quantities in an ecosystem. |
| Productivity | The rate of photosynthesis carried on in an ecosystem |
| Carbon fixation | The converting of inorganic carbon into useful organic carbon substances |
| Nitrogen fixation | The converting of gaseous nitrogen into useful organic nitrogen substances. |
| Benthic | Describing organisms that live on the ocean bottom |
| Pelagic | Describing organisms that live in the water column away from the ocean bottom. |