Ecology Vocab #1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Abiotic | non-living |
| Biomes | a broad, regional type of ecosystem characterized by distinctive climate and soil conditions and a distinctive kind of biological community adapted to those conditions. |
| Biosphere | part of Earth in which life exists including land, water, and air or atmosphere |
| biotic | living |
| birth rate | the number of births in a population in a certain amount of time |
| carrying capacity | largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support |
| community | (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other |
| death rate | the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area |
| demographics | the characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, and gender. |
| density dependent | Referring to any characteristic that varies according to an increase in population density. |
| density independent | Referring to any characteristic that is not affected by population density. |
| ecology | the environment as it relates to living organisms |
| ecosystem | a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment |
| emigration | movement of individuals out of an area |
| enviroment | all of the surrounding things, conditions, and influences affecting the growth or development of living things |
| exponential growth | growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate |
| habitat | Place where an Organism lives |
| immigration | moving into a population |
| limiting factors | Conditions in the environment that put limits on where an organism can live |
| logistic growth | growth pattern in which a population's growth rate slows or stops following a period of exponential growth |
| niche | (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) |
| population | a group of organisms of the same species populating a given area |
| population density | number of individuals per unit area |
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