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Ecology Rempalski
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecology | study of interactions among organisms. p. 63 |
| biosphere | contains combined portions of the planet in which all life exists, including land, water, and air, or atmosphere. p. 63 |
| species | group of organisms so similar to 1 another that they can breed together. p.64 |
| population | p. 64, group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in a defined area. |
| communities | assembalages of diff. populations that live in a defined area. p.64 |
| ecosystem | p.64, a collection of the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving or physical environment. 64 |
| autotrophs | p. 67, use energy from the environment to fuel the assembly of simple inorganic compounds. |
| producers | p. 67, capture energy from sunlight and those that capture chemical energy. |
| heterotroph | p. 68, obtains energy from the food it consumes. |
| food webs | 69, network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem. page. 70 |
| trophic level | each step in a food chain or food web p. 70 |
| biomass | the total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level. p. 72 |
| biochemical cycle | biological, geological, and chemical aspects of the biosphere 74 |