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Biology Vocab #3 Q 1
Biology Ch2 Sec 3 & Ch3 Sec 1
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| matter | Anything that takes up space or has mass. |
| nutrient | A chemical substance that an organism must obtain from its environment to sustain life and undergo life processes. |
| biogeochemical cycle | The exchange of matter throughout the biosphere. |
| nitrogen fixation | The process of capture and conversion of nitrogen into a form that is useable by plants. |
| biological community | A group of interacting populations that occupy the same area at the same time. |
| secondary succession | The orderly and predictable change that takes place after a community of organisms has been removed but the soil has remained intact. |
| limiting factor | Any abiotic factor or biotic factor that restricts the numbers, reproduction, or distribution of organisms. |
| tolerance | The ability of any organism to survive when subjected to abiotic factors or biotic factors. |
| ecological succession | The change in an ecosystem that happens when one community replaces another as a result of changing abiotic and biotic factors. |
| primary succession | The establishment of a community in an area of exposed rock that does not have any topsoil. |
| climax community | The stable, mature community that results when there is little change in the composition of species. |
| epidemic | A widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time. |
| pandemic | A disease that is prevalent over a whole country or the world |
| morgue | A place where bodies are kept, especially to be identified or claimed. |
| the Black Death (Yersinia pestis) | A plague that moved across Asia, into Northern Africa, then to Europe from the 1300s to the 1700s. Caused by the bacteria "Yersinia pestis". It was carried by fleas on rats. |
| cholera | An infectious and often fatal bacterial disease of the small intestine, typically contracted from infected water supplies and causing severe vomiting and diarrhea. |
| yellow fever | Spread by a species of mosquito common to areas of Africa and South America. Vaccination is recommended before traveling to certain areas. |
| epidemiologist | Often called “Disease Detectives”, they search for the cause of disease, identify people who are at risk, determine how to control or stop the spread or prevent it from happening again. |
| U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) | The national public health agency of the United States |
| World Health Organization (WHO) | A specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. |
| parish | A territorial division corresponding to a county in other states or country. |
| humors | An old and disproven medical theory/practice where the supposed four basic elements controlled and "made up" the human body: blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. "Bloodletting" was a common practice of this disproven medical practice |
| ominous | Giving the impression that something bad or unpleasant is going to happen; threatening; inauspicious. |
| buboes | An enlarged lymph node that is tender and painful. They particularly occur in the groin and armpit (the axillae) |
| decimated | To kill, destroy, or remove a large percentage or part of. |
| Bills of Morality | The weekly mortality statistics in London, designed to monitor burials from 1592 to 1595 and then continuously from 1603. |
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Mr. Bryant
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