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Ecology Alford
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the "scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment." | Ecology |
| What is the "part of Earth in which life exsists including land, water, and air or atmosphere." | Biosphere |
| What is the "group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring." | Species |
| What is the "group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area." | Population |
| What is the "assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area." | Community |
| What is the "collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving environment." | Ecosystem |
| What is the "organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food from inorganic compounds; also called a producer." | Autotroph |
| What is the "organism that obtains energy from the foods it consumes; also called a consumer." | Heterotroph |
| What is the "network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem." | Food web |
| What is the "step in a food chain or web." | Trophic level |
| What is the "total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level." | Biomass |
| What is the "process in which elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another." | Biogeochemical cycle |
| What is the "single nutrient that either is scarce or cycles very slowly, limiting the growth of organisms in an ecosystem." | Limiting nutrient |
| What is the "condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place." | Weather |
| What is the "average year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region." | Climate |
| What is the "natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and otyher gases. | Greenhouse effect |
| What is the "biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem." | Biotic factor |
| What is the "physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem." | Abiotic factor |
| What is the "full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions." | Niche |
| What is the "growth pattern in which a population's growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth." | Logistic growth |
| What is the "largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can support." | Carrying capacity |
| What is the "scientific study of human populations." | Demography |
| What is the "charge in a population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates." | Demographic transition |
| What is the "the development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural techniques to increase yields of food crops." | Green revolution |
| What is the "resource that can regenerate quickly and that is replaceable." | Renewable resource |
| What is the "harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water." | Pollutant |
| What is the "biological diversity; the sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere." | Biodiversity |
| What is the "increasin concentration a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web." | Biological magnification |
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Sabrina Alford
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