Chapter 3 Vocab

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Species

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The entirety of a population that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring.

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Ecology

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The Study of all processes influencing the distribution and abundance of organisms and the interactions between living things and their environment.

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Population

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A certain number of individuals that make up interbreeding, reproducing, group.

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Biotic Community

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The grouping or assemblage of plants, animals, and microbes.

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Abiotic

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The nonliving, chemical, and physical factors, water, moisture, and climate.

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Ecosystems

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A grouping of plants, animals, and microbes occupying an explicit unit of space and interacting with their environment.

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Ecotone

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A transitional area between two adjacent ecosystems that has characteristics of both.

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Landscapes

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A group of interacting ecosystems.

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Biomes

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Similar or related to ecosystems or landscapes that are often grouped together.(Only Terrestrial not Aquatic)

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Biosphere

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All species and physical factors of earth functioning as one unified ecosystem.

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Conditions

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Abiotic factors that vary in space and time but are not used up or made unavailable to other species.(Temperature, Wind, and Fire)

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Resources

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Any factors(biotic or abiotic) that are consumed by organisms.(Water, Nutrients, Oxygen)

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Law of Limiting Factors

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Every organism has an optimal range, zones of stress, and limits of tolerance.

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Optimum

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A certain level at which organisms do best

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Range of Tolerance

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The entire span that allows any growth at all

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Limits of Tolerance

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Point at the high and low ends of the range of tolerance.

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Zones of Stree

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Region between optimal range and high or low limits of tolerance

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Limiting Factor

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A factor that limits growth

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Synergistic Effects(Synergism)

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Two or more factors interacting in a way that causes an effect much greater than one would anticipate from effects of each of the two acting seperately.

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Habitat

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Refers to the kind of place where a species is biologily adapted to live.

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Ecological Niche

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What an animal feeds on, where it feeds, where it lives, where it nests, and how it responds to abiotic factors.

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Matter

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Anything that has mass and occupies space

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Atoms

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The basic building blocks of matter

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The Law of Conservation of Matter

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Atoms are neither created nor destroyed in any chemical reaction.

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Molecule

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Two or more atoms bonded together

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Compound

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Two or more different atoms bonded together

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Atmosphere

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The thin layers of gases separating the earth from outer space.

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Hydrosphere

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Water(Oceans, rivers, etc.)

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Lithosphere

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Earths Crust(Rocks, Soil, Minerals)

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Mineral

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Any hard, crystalline, inorganic material of a given chemical composition.

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CHNOPS

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Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Phosphorus, and Sulfur

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Organic

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The Chemical compounds making up tissues of living organisms

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Naturally Organic Compunds

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Those that make up living organisms(Carbs, proteins, Fats, and Nucleic Acids)

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Synthetic Organic Compounds

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Human made compounds(Plastics)

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Inorganic

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All other molecules or Compounds with no carbon-carbon or carbon-hydrogen bonds.

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Energy

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Has the ability to move matter, has no mass, and occupies no space.

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Calorie

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The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of 1gram og water 1 degree celcius.

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Kinetic Energy

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Energy in action or motion(Light, heat, electrical current)

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Potential Energy

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Energy in storage(A Battery)

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Chemical Energy

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The potential energy contained in the chemicals and fuels

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Temperature

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Measures the molecular motion in a substance caused by the KE present

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Law of Thermodynamics(Law Conservation of Energy)

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Energy is neither created nor destroyed but may be transformed

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2nd Law of Thermodynamics

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In any energy conversion, some energy will be lost as heat

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Entropy

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A measure of the degree of disorder in a system

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Heat Energy

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The Lowest, most disordered, form of energy

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Photo Synthesis Equation

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6CO(2) + 6H(2)O ----> C(6)H(12)O(6) + 6O(2)

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Oxidation

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Breakdown of molecules

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Cellulose

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Material of plant cell walls

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Fermentation

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Anaerobic process(Oxygen Free) use of glucose

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Biogeochemical Cycles

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Circular pathways of elements involving biological, geological, and chemical processes

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Eutrophication

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A water pollution problem when there is to much phosphorus or nitrogen in a body of water

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Nitrogen Fixation

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The conversion of atmospheric nitrogen N(2) in a reactive form N(r)

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Dentrification

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A microbial process that transforms reactive nitrogen back into atmospheric nitrogen