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Ecology Huang
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment. | Ecology |
| What is the combined portions of Earth in which organisms live in? | Biosphere |
| What is a group of organisms similar to each other? They can breed and produce fertile offspring together. | Species |
| What is a group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area? | Population |
| An assemblage of different populations in the same area is called what? | Community |
| What is the term used to describe the collection of all the organisms in a particular region, that live together with the environment. | Ecosystem |
| Kelp uses energy from the sun to make living tissue. Kelp is what type of organism? | Autotroph |
| If an organism depends on other organisms for energy and their food supply, they are what? | Heterotroph |
| If you link together all the food chains in a particular ecosystem together, you get what? | Food Web |
| What is each step in a food web/ food chain called? | Trophic Level |
| What is the amount of living tissue within a trophic level called? | Biomass |
| What is the name for the interactions between biological, chemical, and geological aspects of the biosphere called? | Biogeochemical Cycle |
| This object is a nutrient that is scarce or cycles slowly. | Limiting Nutrient |
| This is the day to day condition of Earth's atmosphere at a given time and location. | Weather |
| What is the average year after year condition of Earth's atmosphere at a given region. | Climate |
| What is the the natural process in which the Sun's energy is retained by the Earth's greenhouse gases? | Greenhouse Effect |
| What is the biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem called? | Biotic Factor |
| The non-living factors that shape ecosystems are called what? | Abiotic Factor |
| What is an organisms full range of physical and biological conditions it lives in called? | Niche |
| What is the term used to describe when a population's growth slows/stops? | Logistic Growth |
| The number of individuals of a certain population that a given environment can support at one time is what? | Carrying Capability |
| What is the scientific study of human populations called? | Demography |
| What is a dramatic change in birth and death rates called? | Demographic Transition |
| What is the idea that green resources and methods can benefit the world called? | Green Revolution |
| What are resources that can be replenished/regenerate by natural means? | Renewable Resource |
| What is a harmful material that can enter the biosphere through land, air, or water? | Pollutant |
| What is the sum total of gentically based variety of all organisms in the biosphere? | Biodiversity |
| What do you call the process when harmful substances' concentration increases as you go up a food chain? | Biological Magnification |
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