Ecology Vocabulary
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| Habitat | The place where an organism usually lives.
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| Biotoic Factor | An environmental factor that is a associated with or a results from the activities of living organisms.
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| Abiotic Factor | An envirinmental factor that is not associated with the activities of living organisms.
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| Tolerance Curve | A grap of performance versus values of an environmental variable, such as temperature.
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| Acclimation | An organism's change in response to a change in the organis's environment.
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| Conformer | An organism that does not regulate it's internal conditions; they change as their external environment changes.
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| Regulartor | An organism that uses its energy to control its internal conditions
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| Dormancy | A state in which seeds, spores, bulbs, and other reproductive organs stop growth and development and reduce their metabolism, especially respiration.
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| Migration | IN general, any movement of individuals or populations from one location to another; specifically, a periodic group movement that is characteristic of a given population or species.
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| Niche | The unique position occupied by a species, both interms of its physical use of its habitat and its fuction within an ecological community.
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| Generalist | A species with a wide range of niches; they can tolerate a range of conditions with a variety of resources.
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| Specialist | A species that can tolerate only certain niches with specific resources.
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