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Ecology notecards
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is Ecology? | Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their enviroments. |
| What is Biosphere? | Combined portions of the planet in which all of life exists. |
| What is a Species? | A group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring. |
| What is a population? | groups of indivuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area. |
| What is a community? | assembles of different populations that live together in a defined area. |
| What is a ecosytem? | Collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with onliving enviroment. |
| What is Autotroph? | capture enrgy from sunlight and use it to create food. |
| What is a heterotroph? | Organsims that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply. |
| What is a food web? | Feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem form a network of complex interactions. |
| What is a trophic level? | Each step in a food chain |
| What is a biomass? | Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level. |
| What is biogeochemical cycle? | Forms of matter are passed from one organisms to another and from one part of the biosphere to another. |
| What is Limiting nutrient? | When an ecosystem is limited by a single nutrient that is scarce or cycles very slowly. |
| What is weather? | The day-to-day condition of earths atmosperes at a particular time and place. |
| Climate | refers to average year to year conditons of temperature and precitpitation. |
| Greenhouse effect | Natural situation in which heat is retained by this layer of greenhouse gases. |
| Biotic factor | Biologic influences on organisms within an ecosystem |