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Ecology Yin

Honors Biology

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What is Ecology? Ecology is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment, or surroudings.
What is bioshpere? The bioshpere contains the combined portions of the planet in which all of life exists including land, water, and air, or atmosphere.
What are species? Is a grou pof organisms so similar to one another that they an breed and produce fertile offspring.
What is population? groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.
What is a community? Assemblages of different populations that live together in a defined are.
What is an ecosystem? An ecosystem is a collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonlive, or physical, environment.
What are autotrophs? Plants, some algae, and certain bacteria can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use that energy to produce food.
What is a heterotroph?` Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply.
What is a food web? When the feeding relationships among the various orgnaisms in an ecosystem form a network of complex interactions.
What is trophic level? It is each step in a food chain or food web.
What is Biomass? The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level.
What is biogeochemical cycles? Elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organisms to another from one part of the bishpere to another.
What is weather? weather is the day to day condition of earth's atomosphere at the particular time and place.
What is climate? Climate is the average, year after year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region.
What is the greenhouse effect? The natural situatino in which heat is retained by this larer of green house gasses.
What is biotic factors? THe biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem.
What is niche? The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organisms lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions.
What is logistic growth? Occurs when a populations growth slows or stops following a period of exponentioal growth.
What is carry capactiY? The number, in turn, represents the largerset number of individuals-- in this case, yest cells-- that a given environment can support.
What is demography? Demography is the scientific study of human populations.
What is demographic transition? A dramatic change in birth and death rates.
What is green revolution Green revolution is the modern agricultural technique were introducesd, such as monoculture and the use of chimical furtulizers.
What is renewable resource? They can regenerate if they are alive or can be replenished by bio chemical cycles if they are nonliving.
What is pollutant? It is the harmful material that can enter the bioshpere through the land, air, or water.
What is biodiversity? Another word fro variety
What 9is biological magnification? It is concentrations of a harmful substance increase in organisms at high trophic levels in a food haing or food web.
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