ecology
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| show | Ecology is the scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment, or surroundings.
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| Biosphere | show 🗑
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| Species | show 🗑
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| show | Populations are groups of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area.
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| Community | show 🗑
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| show | An ecosystem is a collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place, together with their nonliving, or physical, environment.
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| show | Heterotrophs are organisms that rely on other organisms for their energy and food supply.
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| show | A food web is when the feeding relationships among the various organisms in an ecosystem form a network of complex interactions.
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| show | A trophic level is each step in a food chain or food web.
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| show | Biomass is the total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level.
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| show | Elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another through biogeochemical cycles.
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| show | When an ecosystem is limited by a single nutrient that is scarc or cycles very slowly, this substance is called a limiting nutrient.
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| show | Weather is the day-to-day condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
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| show | Climate refers to the average, year-after-year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region.
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| Biotic Factor | show 🗑
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| show | Abiotic Factors are physical, or nonliving, factors that shape ecosystems.
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| show | A niche is the full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions.
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| show | Logistic growth occurs when a population's growth slows or stops following a period of exponential growth.
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| show | The demographic transition is a dramatic change in birth and death rates.
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| show | The Green Revolution is the development of highly productive crop strains and the use of modern agricultural techniques to increase yields of food crops.
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| show | Biodiversity is the sum total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere.
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