Biology Vocab
Vocabulary from the green packet.
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- Carrying Capacity
- The interaction of biotic potential and environmental resistance.
- Density independent factors
- Factors that check the population growth including weather, fire, and the pH of soil.
- Distribution
- How a population of organisms is spread out over a community.
- Community
- Collection of interacting populations.
- Biotic Potential
- The maximum growth in number of organisms in a population under ideal condition.
- Trophic Levels
- Energy levels; how energy is transferred from a producer to a decomposer.
- Planktonic
- Type of organisms that float that live in the photic zone.
- Nexton
- Free swimmers.
- Genetic Adaptations
- Adaptations that affect the survival of the species, not the individuals.
- Density dependent factors
- Factors that check the population growth including disease, food, shelter and predation.
- Population
- Group of one species of organism that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time.
- Ecosystem
- A place made up of interactions among the populations in a community and the community's physical surrounding.
- Ecology
- The study of interrelationships between organisms.
- Benthic
- Bottom dwellers.
- Symbiosis
- Living together.
- Biomass
- The living mass in an organism.
- Biological Control
- Using a species or population to control the growth rate of another particular population.
- Behavioral Adaptations
- Adaptations that affect how an organism acts.
- Physiological Adaptations
- Internal adaptations that affect how the body works.
- Morphological Adaptations
- Adaptations that affect the outward body structure.
- Niche
- An organisms role in its ecosystem.