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Ecology Lan
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Study of organisms and surrounding environments | Ecology |
| Contains portions of the planet that life exists | Biosphere |
| Group of organisms that can breed/produce offspring | Species |
| Groups of individuals that belong to same species that live in same area | populations |
| Assemblages of different populations that live in a defined area | Communities |
| Collection of organisms that live in a particular place, with their nonliving,or physical, environment. | Ecosystem |
| Group of ecosystems that have sam climate and smiliar dominant communities. | Biome |
| Which organism uses energy from environment for fuel/food? | Autotrophs/plants |
| Organisms that rely on other organisms for energy | Heterotrophs |
| complex interactions to help feed organisms in a network. | Food web |
| Each step in a food chain/web is called a? | Trophic Level |
| Total living tissue within a given trophic level. | Biomass |
| Elements/chemical compounds and other forms of matter that are passed from one organism to another and from one part of biospher to another is? | Biogeochemical cycles |
| What is it called when a ecosystem is limited by 1 nutrient that is too slow to cycle? | Limiting Nutrient |
| Day-to-day condition of earths atmosphere | Weather |
| Refers to the average year-afteryear conditions of tempatre and precipitation. | Climate |
| What is it called when heat is retained by a layer of greenhouse gases? | Greenhouse effect |
| Ecosystemi influenced by organisms within a ecosystem | Biotic factors |
| Ecosystem influenced by nonliving factors within a ecosystem | Abiotic factors |
| Full range of physical and biological conditions in wich an organism lives and how it uses those conditions. | Niche |
| What is it called when a populations growth slows/stops after a period of exponential growth? | Logistic growth |
| The capacity where organisms will slow down breeding/population | Carrying capacity |
| Scientific study of human population | Demography |
| Dramatic change in birth/death rates | Demographic transition |
| The technique of agriculter and chemical fertilizers | Green revolution |
| Resource that can be regenerate or replenished | Renewable resource |
| Harmful material that an enter biosphere | Pollutant |
| sum of total genetically based variety of all organisms in biosphere | Biodiversity |
| Concentartions of a harmful substance that increase in organisms in a higher tropic levels in a food chain/web. | Biological magnification |
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