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Ecology oconnor2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is limiting nutrient? | When in ecosystem is limited by a single nutrient that is scarce or cycles very slowly. |
| What is weather? | The day-to-day condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. |
| What is climate? | The average year-after-year conditions of the temperature and precipitation in a particular region. |
| What is the green house effeect? | The natural situation in which heat is reatined by this layer of green house gases. |
| What are biotic factors? | The biological influnces on organisms within an ecosystem. |
| What is an abiotic factor? | Physical, or nonliving, factors that shape ecosystems. |
| What is a niche? | The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which an organism uses those conditions. |
| What is logistic growth? | The growth pattern in which a population's growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth. |
| What is carrying capacity? | The largest number of individuals of a population that a given environment can hold. |
| What is demography? | The scientific study of human populations. |
| What is the demographic transiation? | A dramatic change in birth and death rate. |
| What is the green revolution? | The development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural |