SOLVED - Elaborated AP ENVIRONMENTAL UNIT 1-2023

SOLVED - Elaborated AP ENVIRONMENTAL UNIT 1-2023 The study of systems that includes interrelationships among organisms and between organisms and their environment. ECOLOGY 2. non-living ABIOTIC 3. living BIOTIC 4. The parts of Earth's atmosphere, ocean, land surface, and soil that contain all living organisms BIOSPHERE 6. The gaseous envelope surrounding Earth. ATMOSPHERE 7. When members of a species with undesirable traits die out while ones with favorable traits reproduce NATURAL SELECTION 8. A group of similar organisms whose members freely interbreed with one another in the wild to produce fertile offspring; members of one species generally do not interbreed with other species. SPECIES 9. Earth's outermost rigid rock layer that is composed of seven large plates, plus a few smaller ones. LITHOSPHERE