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Ch 19 Ecology
Beaver Local 19
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The study of ineractions between orginisms and the living and nonliving componets of their envoronment. | Ecology |
| The mechanism that insulates Earth from the deep freeze of space. | Greenhouse effect |
| The thin volume of earth and its atmosphere that supports life. | Biosphere |
| This includes all of the organisms and the nonliving environment found in a particular place | Ecosystem |
| All the interacting organisms living in an area. | Community |
| This includes all the members of a species that live in one place at one time | Population |
| The physical area in which an organism lives | Habitat |
| Living components of the environment | Biotic factors |
| The physical and chemical characteristics of the environment. | Abiotic factors |
| A graph of an organism's tolerance to a range of an environmental variable | Tolerance curve |
| The process of an organism's adjustment to an abiotic factor | Acclimation |
| Organisms that do not regulate their internal conditions. | Conformers |
| Organisms that use energy to control some of their internal conditions | Regulators |
| A state of decreased metabolism | Dormancy |
| Energy and materials the species needs | Resources |
| The way of life of a species | Niche |
| the range of conditions that a species can potentially tolerateand the range of recources it can potentially use. | Fundamental Niche |
| species with broad niches; they can tolerate a range of conditionsand use a variety of recources. | Generalist |