ANTH - Anthropology ANTH 2414 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: The Food Chain, Water Scarcity, Lithosphere

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It can be defined as a set of organisms or individuals that coexist in the same space and time, which share certain biological properties: ecosystem, living beings, population, community. The food chain or trophic chain indicates the food relations between producers, consumers and decomposers. In other words, the chain reflects who eats whom (a living being feeds on the one who precedes it in the chain and, at the same time, is eaten by the one who follows it). What factors are part of the food chain according to what is explained here and what you already know about this topic: abiotic, biotic, renewable, non-renewable. Life expectancy: it is the total of new individuals that are added to the population through reproduction, for every thousand inhabitants: true, false. Set of physical, chemical, biological elements and social factors capable of causing direct and indirect effects in the short or long term on living beings and human activities: ecology, biosphere, environment, pollution.