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Grant Kim
BIO
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What is ....... Ecology | the scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment, or surroundings. |
What is ....... Biosphere | Contains the combined portions of the planet in which all of life exists, including land, water and air or atmosphere. The largest of theses houses. |
What is ....... species | a group of organisms so similar to one another that they can breed and produce fertile offspring. |
What is ....... population | groups of individuals that belong to the same species and livein the same area. |
What is ....... community | assemblages of different populations that live together in a defined area. |
What is ....... ecosystem | is a collection of all the organisms that live in a particular place together with their nonliving or physical environment. |
What is ....... autotrophs | Autotrophs use energy from the environment to fuel the aseembly of simple inorganic compounds into complex organic molecules |
What is ....... heterotroph | Organisms that relyon other organisms for their energy and food supply . |
What is ....... food web | A food web links all the food chains in an ecosystem together. |
What is ....... trophic level | each step in a food chain or food web |
What is ....... biomass | the total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level |
What is ....... biogeocheimcal cycle | elements, chemcial compounds and other form of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another |
What is ....... limiting nutrient | when an ecosystem is limited by a single nutrient that is scarce or cycles very slowly its called limiting reagant |
What is ....... Weather | dya to day condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place . |
What is ....... climate | refers to the average,year after year conditions of temperature and precipitation in a particular region. |
What is ....... green house effects | The natural situation in which heat is retained by this layer of greenhouse gases . |