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Question 1

a resource or environmental condition that limits the growth, distribution, or abundance of an organism or population within an ecosystem

Answer 1

limiting factor

Question 2

set of environmental conditions in which an organism can live and reproduce

Answer 2

niche

Question 3

what does n indicate in the Hutchonsonain niche/n-dimensional hypervolume

Answer 3

n indicates the number of different environmental conditions that determine where an organism can survive and reproduce

Question 4

what describes the phenomena of how an organisms performance is low near the extremes of a limiting factor and optimal optimal at some intermediate value

Answer 4

performance curve

Question 5

the set of environmental conditions where the species ACC occurs

Answer 5

realized niche

Question 6

the set of environmental conditions that a species COULD tolerate

Answer 6

fundamental niche

Question 7

convert the energy of sunlight or inorganic compounds into chemical energy stores in the carbon-carbon bonds of organic compounds

Answer 7

autotrophs

Question 8

obtain energy by consuming organic compounds from other organisms

Answer 8

heterotrophs

Question 9

what is the definition of ecology?

Answer 9

ecology is the study of the interactions that determine the distribution and abundance of organisms

Question 10

a group of interacting organisms AND their physical environment

Answer 10

ecosystem