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taylors vocab 16
vocabulary words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| the study of the interactions of living organism with one another and with their enviroment. | ecology |
| the place where an organism usually lives. | habitat |
| a group of species that live in the same habitat and interact with eachother. | community |
| an enviroment factor that is not associated with the activities or living organisms | abiotic factors |
| an enviromental factor that is associated with the results from the activites of living organisms | biotic factors |
| the number amd varirty of organisms in a given are during a soecific period of time. | biodiversity |
| a species that colonize an uninhabitited area and that starts an ecological cycle in which many other species becomes est. | pioneer species |
| the replacement of one tyoe of cummubnity by anorther at a subgle locaton over a period of time | succession |
| succession that begins in an area that previously did not support life. | primary successon |
| the process by which one community replaces another community that has been partially or totally destroyed | secondary succession |
| the total amount of organic material rgat the autotrophic organism of an ecrosystem produce | primary productivity |
| an organisms that can make arganic molecules from inorganic molecules | producer |
| organism that eats other organism or organic material | consumer |
| one of the steps in a food chain or food pyramid | trophic level |
| the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of feeding patterns if a series of organisms | food chain |
| an organism that eats only plants | herbivore |
| animals that eats other animals | canivores |
| organisms that eat both plants and animals | omnivores |
| organisms rgar ibtain there anergy from the organic waste and dead bodies that produce at all trophic levels | detritivores |
| cause decay | decomposers |
| complicated interconnected gruops of food chains | food web |
| diagram in wehcih each trophic levels is represented by a block | energy pyramid |
| dry weight of tissue and otehr organic matter found in specific ecosystem | biomass |
| path forms closed circles or cycles | biogeiochemical cycle |
| water retained beneith the surface of the earth | ground water |
| the process in which plants release water vapor into rgw air through stomata | transpiration |
| process if combining nitrogen with hydrogen to from ammonia | nitrogen fixation |
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