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The pourous ungerground rock in which groundwater is stored.
There are two types: unconfined and confined.
unconfined aquifers are more contaminated, but confined aquifers take longer to replenish.
Water in unconfined aquifers has traveled through "impermeable rock" layers. |
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The diversity of living things.
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*species diversity
*divirsity of distribution
*genetic diversity |
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| An ecosystem dominated by a large vegetation formation, whose boundaries are largely determined by climate. The same biome type can occur on two different continents and have different species, but the two regions will bear striking resemblences. |
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| The interactive collection of all the world's ecosystems. Also thought of as that portion of the earth that supports life. |
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| The movement of water and nutrients back adn forth between biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving) systems. |
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| The maximum population of a species that can be sustained in a given geographical area over time. often as K. |
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| the average weather conditions, including temperationre, precipitation, and wind, in a particular region |
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*All the populations o fliving things that inhabit a given area.
*Also used to mean a collection of populations in a given area that potentially interact with each other. |
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| organic matieral -> inorganic components |
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| The study of the interactions that living things have with each other and their environments. |
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| The living things and their non-living surroundings that interact with one another in a particular geographic location. |
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A form of population growht in which the rate of groth increases with time.
*Exponential growth results in a J-shaped growth curve because, when plotted on a graph, the population's increase resembles the letter J. |
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| the surroundings in which individuals of a species are normally found. |
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| the rate at which a population would grow if there were no external limits on its growth. In ecology, this is often denoted as r. |
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| a species whose impact on the composition of a cummunity is large, relative to its abundance within that community |
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| extrinsic factors that limit the growth/size of a population (?) |
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| Population growth in which exponential growth slows and then stops in response to environmental resistance. Also known ans S shaped growth. |
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| A type of predation in which the predator gets nutrients from the prey but does not kill it immediately, if ever. |
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| all the members of a species that live in a defined geographic region at a given time. |
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| climate of a very small area |
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| A type of organism-organism interaction where one organism lives in intimate association with another. |
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| protecting of the environment via recycling, conservation, regeneration etc |
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| scientific research used to justify political positions etc |
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