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Honors Bio JH
Honors Bio Jake Hastings - Rinehart
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ecology | The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings |
| Biosphere | The regions of the surface and atmosphere of the earth or other planet occupied by living organisms |
| species | A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding |
| population | A particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country |
| community | All the people living in a particular area or place |
| ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment |
| autotroph | An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide |
| heterotroph | An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances |
| food web | A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains |
| trophic level | Each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem, consisting of organisms sharing the same function in the food chain |
| biomass | The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume |
| biogeochemical cycle | a pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic and abiotic compartments of Earth |
| limiting nutrient | A limiting factor or limiting resource is a factor that controls a process, such as organism growth or species population, size, or distribution |
| weather | The state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc |
| climate | The weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period |
| green house effect | The trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface |
| biotic factor | A living organism |
| abiotic factor | A non-living organism |
| niche | A place or position |
| logistic growth | a common sigmoid curve |
| carrying capacity | The number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container |
| demography | The study of statistics such as births, deaths, income, or the incidence of disease, which illustrate the changing structure of human populations |
| demographic transition | used to represent the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates as a country develops from a pre-industrial to an industrialized economic system |
| green revolution | A large increase in crop production in developing countries achieved by the use of fertilizers, pesticides, and high-yield crop varieties. |
| renewable resource | any natural resource that can be replenished naturally with the passage of time |
| pollutant | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil |
| biodiversity | The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem |
| biological magnification | the increase in concentration of a substance that occurs in a food chain |
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