Mar Bio Mod 8 Vocab Word Scramble
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Ecology | The study of the relationship between an organism and it's environment |
Abiotic | The nonliving part of the environments |
Biotic | The living part of an environment |
Carrying capacity | The largest population size that can be supported by a specific area with its available resources |
Limiting resource | A factor required for a population to grow, but present in small quantities in an ecosystem. |
Detritus | Dead organic matter and the decomposing organisms living among it |
Productivity | The rate of photosynthesis carried on in an ecosystem |
Carbon fixation | The converting of inorganic carbon into useful organic carbon substances |
Nitrogen fixation | The converting of gaseous nitrogen into useful organic nitrogen substances |
Benthic | Describing organisms that live on the ocean bottom |
Pelagic | Describing organisms that live in the water column away from the ocean bottom |
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