Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ecology Francisco
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between Organisms and their envirenment. |
| Biosphere | Part of Earth in which life excists including land, water, and air or atmosphere. |
| Species | Group of similiar organisms that can breed and produce different fertille offsprings. |
| Population | Group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area. |
| Community | Asseblage of different populations that live together in a defined area. |
| Ecosystem | Collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving envirenment |
| Autotroph | Organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compunds; also called a prducer |
| Heterotroph | Organism obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also called a cossumer |
| Food Web | A network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organsims in an ecosystem |
| Trophic level | Step in a food chain or food web |
| Biomass | Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level |
| Biogiochemical Cycle | Process in which elements, chemical compunds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere |
| Limited Nutrient | Single nutrient that either is scarce or cycles very slowly, limiting the growth of organisms in an ecosystem |
| Weather | Condition of earths atmosphere at a particular time and place |
| Climate | Average year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region |
| Green House Effect | Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earths atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, and other gasses |
| Biotic Factor | Biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem |
| Abiotic Factor | Physical, or nonliving, factor that shapen an ecosystem |
| Niche | full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way organisms lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions |
| Logostic Growth | growth pattern in which a populations growth rare slow or stops following a period of exponential growth |
| carrying Capacity | Largest number of individuals of a population that a given envirenment can support |
| Demography | Scientific study of human populations |
| Demographic Transition | Change in the population from high birtha and death rates to low birth and death rates |
| Green Revolution | The development of highly productive crop strains and the uses of modern agricultural technique to increase yeilds of food crops |
| renewable resource | Resource that can regenerate quickly and that is replacable |
| Pollutant | Harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water |
| Biodiversity | Biological diversity; the sumtotal of the variety of organisms in the biosphere |
| Biological Magnification | Increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web |
Created by:
acarsenal95
Popular Biology sets