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flash card terms for biology

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ECOLOGY
BIOSPHERE
SPECIES Group or similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
SPECIES Group or similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
POPULATION Group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area.
POPULATION Group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area.
COMMUNITY Assemblage 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
AUTOTROPH Organisms that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds, also called a producer.
AUTOTROPH Organisms that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds, also called a producer.
HETEROTROPH Organisms that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; als called a consumer.
FOOD WEB
FOOD WEB
TROPHIC LEVEL Step in a food chain or web.
TROPHIC LEVEL Step in a food chain or web.
BIOMASS Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level.
BIOMASS Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level.
LIMITING NUTRIENT
BIOMASS Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level.
BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE
WEATHER Condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE
CLIMATE
LIMITING NUTRIENT
GREEN HOUSE EFFECT Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases.
WEATHER Condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
CLIMATE
ABIOTIC FACTOR Physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem.
CLIMATE
NICHE
LOGISTIC GROWTH
GREEN HOUSE EFFECT Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases.
BIOTIC FACTOR Biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem.
CARRYING CAPACITY Largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can support.
ABIOTIC FACTOR Physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem.
DEMOGRAPHY Scientific study of populations.
NICHE
DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION Change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth to death rates.
LOGISTIC GROWTH
GREEN REVOLUTION The development of highly productive crop strains and the rise
CARRYING CAPACITY Largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can support.
RENEWABLE RESOURCE
DEMOGRAPHY Scientific study of populations.
POLLUTANT
DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION Change in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth to death rates.
BIODIVERSITY
GREEN REVOLUTION The development of highly productive crop strains and the rise of modern agricultural techniques to increase yields of food crops.
RENEWABLE RESOURCE Resource that can regenerate quickly and that is replaceable.
RENEWABLE RESOURCE
POLLUTANT
BIODIVERSITY
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