ENV100Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Nitrogen Fixation, Estuary, Pesticide Resistance
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It is always important to learn the language of any new discipline that you undertake. Match each of the following definitions with the term that best fits. Please note that there will be a few extra terms for which you won"t find a matching definition. Growth or increase of something by the gradual accumulation of material or layers. Relatively rapid diversification of organisms in response to the availability of new ecological niches as a result of environmental change. The maximum population that a particular environment can support without undergoing ecological damage. When two or more independent species closely influence each other, and each adapts to changes in the other during their evolution. A group of two or more populations of different species occupying the same geographical area at the same time. The evolution of similar biological traits or characters by two separate and distinct species, as a result of adaptation to similar environmental pressures.
