Evolution
any biological living system that functions as an individual life form
What is an Organism?
the study of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment
What is Ecology?
the biological process by which new individual organisms – "offspring" – are produced from their "parent" or parents
What is Reproduction?
anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
What is Carrying Capacity?
The connection between two atoms in a molecule
What is a Chemical Bond?
the change in heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations
What is Evolution?
the state of steady internal, physical, chemical, and social conditions maintained by living systems
What is Homeostasis?
is the quantitative property that is transferred to a body or to a physical system, recognizable in the performance of work and in the form of heat and light
What is Energy?
happens when a climax community or intermediate community is impacted by a disturbance
What is Secondary Succession?
The process of demonstrating a chemical property
What is a Chemical Change?
the study of the relationships among living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment
What is Ecology?
consists of all the organisms and the physical environment with which they interact
What is an Ecosystem?
the change in heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations
What is Evolution?
all of the food chains in an ecosystem
What is a Food Web?
the process by which green plants and certain other organisms transform light energy into chemical energy
What is Photosynthesis?
proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now generally accepted and considered a fundamental concept in science
Who is Charles Darwin?
living things within an ecosystem; such as plants, animals, and bacteria
What is Biotic?
Someone sweating in the Summer
What is Responding to their Environment?
only about 10 percent of energy stored as biomass in a trophic level is passed from one level to the next
What is Rule of "10"?
any substance that cannot be decomposed into simpler substances by ordinary chemical processes
What is an Element?
holds that an organism experiencing such a modification can transmit such a character to its offspring
Who is Jean Baptiste Lamarck?
are non-living components; such as water, soil and atmosphere
What is a Cell?
an ecological succession where a newly formed area is inhabited for the first time by a group of species or a community
What is Primary Succession?
a homogenous mixture of two or more substances in relative amounts that can be varied
What is a Solution?