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| ecology | scientific study of interactions among organismsand their environment
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| bioshere | part of earth in which life exists including land water and air or atmoshere
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| species | group of similar organisms that can breed and reproduce fertile offspring
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| population | group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
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| community | assemblage of different popu,ations that lived together in a defined area
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| ecosystem | collection of ALL THE ORGANISMS THAT LIVE IN A PARTICULAR PLACE TOgether with their nonliving environment
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| autotroph | organism that can capture energy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce its own food inorganic compounds also called a producer
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| heterotroph | organism that obtains energy forom the food it consumes also called a consumer
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| food web | network of complex interactions formed by the feeding relationships among the various oganisms in an ecosystem
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| trophic level | step in food chain or food web
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| biomass | total amoount of livin gtissue within a given trophic level
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| biogoechemical cycle | process in which elements, chemical compounds and other forms of matter are passed from one oraganism to another and from one parts of the bioshpere to another.
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| limiting nutrients | single nutrient that is scarce or cycles very slowly, limiting the growth of organisms in the ecosystem
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| weather | condition of earths atmosphere ata particular time and place
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| climate | average year after year conditions of temperture and precipiation in a perticular region
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| green house effect | natural situation in which heat is retained in earths atmosphere by cobon dioxide, methane, water vapor and other gases
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| biotic factor | biological influence on organisms within the ecosystem
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| abiotic factor | phsical non living factor that shapes the ecosystem
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| niche | full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organisms use those conditions
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| logistic growth | growth pattern in which a populations growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth
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| carrying compacity | largest number of indiduals of a population that a given envirnment can support
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| demography | scientific study of human populations
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| demographic transition | change in population from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates
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| green revolution | the development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural techniques to increase yeilds of food crops
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| renewable resource | resource that can regenerate quickly and that is peplacrable
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| popullant | harmful material that can enter the bioshere through the land air or water
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| biodiversity | biologicalo diversity ths sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere
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| biological magnification | increasin concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels int he food chqain or food web
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