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A not living part of the environment.
What is an Abiotic factor?
The 3 main biogeochemical cycles
What are the carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles?
Grows without a limit
What is Exponential growth?
Recources that are produced or replenished more quickly than they are consumed.
What is Renewable resource?
Occurs when a community forms in an area that has not been previously occupied occurs over a long periods of time.
What is Primary Succession?
Organism, population, community, ecosystem, biome
What is the Ecological levels of organization?
Plant captures CO2 to to make sugar
What is photosynthesis?
Aspects of the environment that limit the size of a population.
What are limiting factors?
CFS's deplete the ozone layer, allowing more of the sun's UV rays to get in.
What is Global Warming?
Occurs in an area that was previously occupied by living organisms but the community was destroyed by a disturbance.
What is Secondary succession?
Asexual and sexual
What are the 2 types of reproduction?
Sun heats heats liquid to vapor.
What is Evaporation?
measures the number of individual organisms living in a defined space
What is population density?
A balance between earth's resources, human needs. and needs of other species.
What is Sustainability?
When one animal kills and eats another for food.
What is Predation?
A variety of organisms considered at all levels
What is Biodiversity?
Water rises in the atmosphere as vapor from plants.
What is Transpiration?
The spatial distribution of organisms in a population
What is population dispersion?
The normal warming effect when gases trap heat in the atmosphere.
What is greenhouse gases?
A relation ship that exists between two or more organisms that are fighting for the same limited recourse.
What is Competition?
A field of biology that classifies organisms and organized them based on their similarities.
What is Taxonomy?
Water vapor condenses to form clouds.
What is Condensation?
a graphic representation of morality patterns
What is survivorship?
Can contribute to air, water, and land pollution, AND provides clean energy, waste management, and pollution clean up.
What is Technology?
One organism is beneficial while the other is unaffected.
What is Commensalism?