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15 Cards in this Set
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Matter quality |
How useful a matter resource is based on availability |
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Energy quality |
Ability of a form of energy to do useful work |
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Tipping point |
Environ. Problems cause a fundamental & irreversible shift in the behavior of a system |
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Synergy |
2 or more factors combined = greater sum |
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Species |
Group of similar organisms |
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Population |
Group of individual organisms of the same species |
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Habitat |
Type of place were a pop. Of organisms live |
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Ecosystem |
Communities of diff. Species interacting |
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Abiotic |
Non living |
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Biotic |
Living |
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Limiting factor principle |
Too much/little of an abiotic factor can prevent growth in pop. |
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Autotroph |
(Producer)buses solar energy to get nutrients |
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Heterotroph |
(Consumer) can't synthesize. Eats tissue of other consumers/producers |
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Biomass |
Organic matter produced by plants |
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NPP (net primary productivity) |
Rate at which all the plants in an ecosystem produce useful chemical energy |
