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What is a Biome?

A large naturally occurring community of plants and animals that occupy a major habitat

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What is a Population?

Group of individuals of similar type living in a given area

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What is Population Density?

How closely members of the same type of living organism live together

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What are Invasive Species?

Species that are not native to a given area

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What is Mortality?

How fast or how many members of a species die in a given time

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What is Biomass?

Total amount of living and once living materials in an area

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What is Biodiversity?

Measure of the number of different types of organisms that live in a given area

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What is Cellular Respiration?

Whe living things take in oxygen and combine it with sugars to get out the energy and produce carbon dioxide and water

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What is a Niche?

The role that a given organism has in an ecosystem

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What is Natality?

How fast or how many members of a species are born in a given time

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What is the Benthic Zone

The floor of a body of water

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What is the Abyssal Zone?

Ecological realm consisting of the deep sea, lacking plant life because of the absence of light

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What is Photosynthesis?

When plants use energy from the sun along with carbon dioxide and water to form sugars and release oxygen

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What is Denitrification?

When nitrogen returns back to the atmosphere and destroys the useful nitrates

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What are Limiting Resources?

Things that are needed by a population that are in limited supply

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What is the Littoral Zone?

The grassy, reedy, marshy perimeter along the banks of our water systems.

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What is the Pelagic Zone?

Ecological realm that includes the entire ocean water column

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What is Nitrogen Fixation?

The process that combines nitrogen with oxygen in nature

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What is Immigration?

How fast or how many members of a species move into a given area in a given time

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What is a Carrying Capacity?

The size of a population that a given ecosystem can support in a stable manner

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What is the Limnetic Zone?

The open and well-lit area of a freestanding body of water

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What is Biotic Potential?

The maximum rate that a population can grow under idea conditions

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What is Emigration?

How fast or how many members of a species move out  of a given area in  a given time

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What are Density Dependent Factors?

Factors that are influenced by the population density in an area

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What are Density Independent Factors?

Factors that will change a population whether the population density is high or low