Science 10 - Biology VOCAB

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Unrestricted population growth with unlimited resources.

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Exponential Growth

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Organisms that produce their own food from basic nutrients and sunlight.

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Autotroph

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Diversity of living things

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Biodiversity

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Size of a population supported indefinitely by ecosystem resources

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Carrying Capacity

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Organisms that feed off others

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Heterotroph

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Food chains interlock to form a feeding relationship.

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Food Web

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Interacting parts of a biological community and its environment

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Ecosystems

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A factor that limits the growth or distribution of a population in an ecosystem.

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Limiting Factor

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Atmospheric conditions at a specific time and place

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Weather

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Toxin concentration increases up a food chain

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Bioaccumulation