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ecology tenebaum 2

ecology terms 2

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Logistic growth occurs when a population's growth slows or stops following a period of exponential growth
Carrying capacity the largest number of individuals that a given enviornment can support
Demography the scientific study of human population
Demographic transition A dramatic change in birth and death rates
Green revolution The development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agriculture techniques to increase yields of food crops
Renewable Recources can regenerate if they are alive or can be replenished by biochemical cycles if they are nonliving
pollutant a harmful material that can enter the biosphere throught the land, air, or water
biodiversity the sum total of the genetically based variety of all organisms in the biosphere
biological magnification the process where concentrations of a harmful substance increase in organisms at hight trophic levels in a food chain/web
Niche the full range of physical and biological conditions in which and organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions
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