Ecology Terms #1

Question 1

Evolution of several species from a common ancestor into new ecological or geographical zones.

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Adaptive Radiation

Question 2

One of the biospheres major communities, Characterized in particular by certain climatic conditions and particular types of plants.

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Biome

Question 3

The portion of the earth’s surface were living things exist.

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Biosphere

Question 4

Assemblage of populations interacting with one another in the same environment

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Community

Question 5

Study of interactions of organisms with other organisms in the physical environment.

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Ecology

Question 6

Biological community together with the associative abiotic environment characterized by energy flow and chemical cycling

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Ecosystem

Question 7

A place where an organism lives and is able to survive and reproduce.

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Habitat

Question 8

No living

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Abiotic

Question 9

Living

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Biotic

Question 10

A habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of organisms (food web)

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Niche

Question 11

Changes that occur in the members of species with the passage of time often resulting in increased adaption of organisms to the environment

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Evolution