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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | Is the scientific study of interactions among oraganisms and between organisms and their enviroment or surroundings. |
| Biosphere | Contains the combined portions of the planet in which all life exists. |
| Species | A group of organisms so similar to each other that they can reproduce. |
| Population | Groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area. |
| Community | Assemblages of different populations that live in the same area. |
| Ecosystem | A collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their living or non-living enviroment. |
| Autotroph | Organisms that capture sunlight to produce food. |
| Heterotroph | Organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy. |
| Food Web | Complex interactions among various organisms in an ecosystem.(eating) |
| Trophic Level | Each step in a food chain or web. |
| Biomass | The total amount of living tissue in a trophic level. |
| Biogeochemical Cycle | Elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter that are passed from one organism to another. |
| Limiting Nutrient | When an ecosystem is limited by a single nutrient which is scarce or cycled slowly. |
| Weather | The day to day condition of Earths atmosphere at a particular time and place. |
| Climate | The average year after year condition of temperature and precipitation in a particular region. |
| Green House Effect | The natural situation where heat is retained by a layer of gases. |
| Biotic Factor | The biological influences on organisms within an ecosystem. |
| Abiotic Factor | Physical or non-living factors that shape ecosystems. |
| Niche | A full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives. |
| Logistic Growth | When a populations growth stops or slows following a period of exponential growth. |
| Carrying Capacity | The largest number of individuals that a given environment can support. |
| Demography | The scientific study of human populations. |
| Demographic Transition | A dramatic change in birth and death rates. |
| Green Revolution | Monoculture and chemical fertilizers that increased the food supply. |
| Renewable Resource | Can regenerate if they are alive or can be replenished by bio-chemicals if they are non-living. |
| Pollutant | A harmful material that can entire the biosphere through the land, air, or water. |
| Biodiversity | The sum total of the genetically based variety of all organisms in the biosphere. |
| Biological Magnification | Concentrations of a harmful substance increase in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web. |
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