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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | orginisms and their envirment , or surroundings |
| Biosphere | contains the copmbined portions of the planet in witch all life exists, all over |
| Species | a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can bread and produce firtial offspring |
| Population | goup of indivituals that belong to the same species and live in the same area |
| Communites | different population that live together in a defined area |
| Ecosystem | colection of all orginisms that live in a particular place living and nonliving |
| Biome | a group of ecosystems that have the same climate and simular domiant comunities |
| Autotrophs | capture energy from sun light and use that energy to produce food |
| Producers | autotrophs |
| Heterotroph | contains energy from the food it consumes |
| Food Web | network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationship from various orginasims |
| trophic leel | step in a food chain or food level |
| biomass | total amount of living tissue with in a tropic level |
| biogeochemical cycle | the process when all forms of matter are passed from one chemical to another |
| limiting nutrient | single nutrient that either is scare or cylces very slow limiting growth |
| weather | condision of earths atmosphere at a poticular point and time |
| climate | average year after year condisions of temp and peserpatison |
| green house effect | when heat and cabon dioxed is remained on the earths atmosphere |
| biotic factor | bioligical infulence on organisms within an ecosystem |
| abiotic factor | phical or nonliving factor that shapes an ecosystem |
| niche | full range of phical and biotical condisions in witch an organism lives |
| logistic | the growth pattern in witch a populations growth rate slows or stops flowing |
| predation | one benefits one does not |
| symbiosis | 2 live close together |
| mutualism | both benefit |
| commensalism | 1 benefits one is not helped or hurt |
| parasitism | one lives off of other and hurts it |
| resource | any necessity of life |
| pioneer species | first to populate an area |