GEO 131 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Soil Type, Climax Community, Introduced Species
28 Oct 2012
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What is the environment: complex of social or cultural conditions that affect an individual of. It"s the combination of the spheres in which everything exists. It"s the home/habitat on which all things depend community: collection of organisms that live in a place with the nonliving environment. What is a system: an assemblage or combination of parts or members forming a complex or unitary whole. What is an ecosystem: an ecosystem consists of all biotic organisms, alone with abiotic materials and energy with which they interact and depend, small microhabitants (sustainable fish tank) or large habitats (landscapes) Patterns of the landscape are links to the ecosystem functions and processes. Scientific method: a way to ask and answer specific questions by making observations and doing experiments, do background research, construct hypothesis, test you hypothesis by doing experiments, analyze your data and draw a conclusion, communicate your results. Species: group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
