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Explain two ways temperature affects plants |
plants will germinate at specific temperatures and plants will die or become dormant at specific temperatures |
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define biotic potential |
maximum population size that can be maintained with unlimited resources |
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how does light duration affect animals and plants |
different plants have a different tolerance for the hours spent in the sun animals habits are characterized by the amount of sun they receive. |
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what are the first two laws of thermodynamics |
1) Energy can not be created or destroyed only transferred 2) Energy tends to become more random |
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factors that affect biotic potential |
birth potential precreation the length of reproductive age capacity of survivors |
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environmental resistance |
factors that tend to restrict the biotic potential of an organism |
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biotic environmental resistance |
predation competition food disease |
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Abiotic environmental resistance |
temperature light toxic chemicals nutrients |
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density independent factors that affect populations |
droughts, floods, fires |
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density dependent factors that affect populations |
Competition Predation Lack of food lack of breeding spots disease |
