SLS Bio11 Ecology AV
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| Carrying Capacity | Number of individuals of a species a particular environment can support indefinitely
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| Cellular Respiration | metabolic reactions and processes that take place in the cells of organisms to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine tand then release waste products.
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| Climax Community | An ecological community in which populations of plants or animals remain stable and exist in balance with each other and their environment
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| Commensalism | an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
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| Consumer | Consume food
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| Cyclic Growth |
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| Decomposers | an organism, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
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| Density Dependant Factors | factors where the effects on the size or growth of a population vary with the density of the population itself
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| Density Independant Factors | Any factor limiting the size of a population whose effect is not dependent on the number of individuals in the population
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| Ecological Succession | The observed process of change in the species structure of an ecological community over time
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| Energy Flow | The flow of energy through a biological food chain.
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| Exponential Growth | Growth whose rate becom more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
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| Logistic Growth | Over time the population size increases until the population size equals the carrying capacity
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| Mutualism | Symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
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| Parasitism | Non-mutual symbiotic relationship between species, where one species, benefits while the other is harmed
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| Photosynthesis | The process by which green plants use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
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| Pioneer Species | Species which are the first to colonize previously disrupted or damaged ecosystems
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| Population | Group of organisms of the same species occupying a certain area
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| Pyramid of Energy | a graphical model of energy flow in a community shaped in a pyramid
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| Steady State | unchanging condition in a physical process
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| Symbiosis | Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.
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