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Biotic is pertaining to life.
Sentence: Biotiv is resulting from living things, espically in their ecological relations.
Ex 1: animals
Ex 2: plants |
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Abiotic are things that are not living.
Sentence: Objects that are living.
Ex 1: Sunlight
Ex 2: Water |
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149. Producer/ Autotroph
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A producer is an organism that produces complex organic compounds from simple substances present in its surroundings.
Sentence: an organism that produces organic compounds.
Ex 1: carbohydrates
Ex 2: fats, proteins |
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150. Consumer/Hetertroph
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A hetertroph is another word for consumer. A consumer is an organism that cannot manufacture its own food and instead obtains its food and energy by taking in organic substances, usually plant or animal matter.
Sentence: its food and energy by taking in organic substances, usually plant or animal matter.
Ex 1: protozoans
Ex 2: fungi |
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A food chain is a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
Sentence: a series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food.
Ex 1: sun
Ex 2: plants |
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A biome is a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g., forest or tundra.
Sentence: Are regions of the world with similar climate.
Ex 1: forest
Ex 2: tundra |
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Biosphere is the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms.
Sentence: The regions of the surface , atmosphere and hydrosphere.
Ex 1: forest
Ex 2: living organism |
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154. Biodiversity
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A biodiversity is the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
Sentence: Diversity among and within plant and animal species in an environment.
Ex 1: plants
Ex 2: animals |
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155. Expontential Growth
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Expontential Growth is growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size.
Sentence: Exponential growth occurs when the growth rate of the value of a mathematical function is proportional to the function's current value.
Ex 1: bacteria
Ex 2: human population
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156. Logistic Growth
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Logistic population growth occurs when the growth rate decreases as the population reaches carrying capacity.
Sentence: The growth rate decreases as the population reaches carrying capacity.
Ex 1: population
Ex 2: rate
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157.Carrying Capacity
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Carrying Capacity the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container.
Sentence: The carrying capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.
Ex 1: habitat
Ex 2: water |
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