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Ecology Lamb
Ecology Cards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is ecology? | The scientific study of the relations that living organisms have with respect to each other and their natural environment. |
| What is a bioshpere? | The global sum of all ecosystems. |
| Wha is a species? | A basic unit of biological classification |
| What is a population? | A major sub-field of ecology that deals with the dynamics of species populations |
| What is a communtiy? | A community is an assemblage of two or more populations of different species occupying the same geographical area. |
| What is an ecosystem? | Ecosystem ecology is the integrated study of biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems and their interactions within an ecosystem framework. |
| What is an autotroph? | An autotroph[α], or producer, is an organism that produces complex organic compounds. |
| What is a heterotroph? | An organism that cannot fix carbon and uses organic carbon for growth. |
| What is a food web? | A food web (or food cycle) depicts feeding connections (who eats whom) in an ecological community. |
| What is a trophic level? | The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food chain. |
| What is a biomass? | As a renewable energy source, is biological material from living, or recently living organisms. |
| What is a biogeochemical cycle? | A biogeochemical cycle or substance turnover or cycling of substances is a pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic (biosphere). |
| What is limiting nutrient? | A limiting nutrient is a chemical necessary for plant growth. |
| What is weather? | Weather is the state of the atmosphere. |
| what is climate? | Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological elemental measurements. |
| What is the green house effect? | The greenhouse effect is a process by which thermal radiation from a planetary surface is absorbed by atmospheric greenhouse gases. |
| What is a biotic factor? | Biotic components are the living things that shape an ecosystem. |
| What is an abiotic factor? | Abiotic components are non-living chemical and physical factors in the environment. |
| What is a niche? | A term describing the relational position of a species or population in its ecosystem to each other. |
| What is a logistic growth? | A common sigmoid curve, given its name in 1844 or 1845 by Pierre François Verhulst who studied it in relation to population growth. |
| What is a carrying capacity? | The maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain. |
| What is demography? | The statistical study of human population. |
| What is demographic transition? | Transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops. |
| What is green revolution? | A series of research, development, and technology transfer initiatives, occurring between the 1940s and the late 1970s. |
| What is a renewable source? | It is replaced by natural processes and if replenished with the passage of time. |
| What is pollutant? | A pollutant is a waste material that pollutes air, water or soil, and is the cause of pollution. |
| What is biodiversity? | The degree of variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. |
| What is biological magnification? | The increase in concentration of a substance. |
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