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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.

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