BIO120H1 Chapter 1: lecture 1-Chapter 1,4,5.docx
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Biosphere- global process connecting vast continents and all of it innards. Community: interactions amongst species of animals in local area. Population: group of specific animas in that local area. Organism: the singular animal or thing, which interacts with land (ex. Emphasizes the individual organisms form, physiology & behavior. Look at adaptations of organisms: population approach: Concerned with variation in the number of individuals, the sex ratio, size of age classes and genetic makeup of pop through time: community approach: Concerned with understanding the diversity of organisms living in one space, their interactions and relationships: ecosystem approach: Describes organisms and their activities in terms of amounts of energy and chemical elements essential to life aka o2: biosphere approach: Describe movement of air and water and the energy over the surface of the earth, which affects the organisms in the different parts of the world. Organisms within soil, water and sediment perform most energy transformation in biosphere.