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What is the Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and thier enviornment, or surroundings? Ecology
What contains the combined portions of the planet in which all of life exists, including land, water, air, or atmosphere? Biosphere
What is a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring? Species
What are a group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same enviorment? Population
What are assemblages of different populations that live together in a defined area? Community
What is a collection of all the organims that live in a particular place, together with thier nonliving, or physical, enviorment? Ecosystem
What can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use that energy to produce food? Autotroph
What are organims that rely on other organisms for thier energy and food supply? Heterotroph
What is a series of syeps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten. Food web
What is each step in the food chain or food web? Trophic level
What is the total amount of living tissue within a trophic level? Biomass
What is it called when elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from on organism to another and from on part of the biosphere to another? Biogeochemical cycle
What is single nutrient that either is scare or cycles very slowly, limit9ing the growth of organims in an ecosystem? Limiting nutrient
What is the condition of earth's surface at a particular time and place? Weather
What is the average, year after year condittions of temperature and precipition in a particular region? Climate
What is a natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atomsphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases? Green house effect
What is the biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem? Biotic factor
What Abiotic factor
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