AP BIO: Ecology Review Latest Version Graded A+

AP BIO: Ecology Review Latest Version Graded A+ acid rain rain containing acids that form in the atmosphere when industrial gas emissions (especially sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides) combine with water age structure proportion of people in different age groups in a population algal blooms a vast increase in the concentration of diatoms and other photosynthetic protists. ammonification the formation of ammonia compounds in the soil by the action of bacteria on decaying matter aposematic coloration The bright coloration of animals with effective physical or chemical defenses that acts as a warning to predators batesian mimicry A type of mimicry in which a harmless species looks like a species that is poisonous or otherwise harmful to predators. biological magnification increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web biomes a broad, regional type of ecosystem characterized by distinctive climate and soil conditions and a distinctive kind of biological community adapted to those conditions. biosphere the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist biotic potential the maximum reproductive rate of an organism, given unlimited resources and ideal environmental conditions browsers Animals that may eat only part of a plant but may weaken it in the process camouflage the act of concealing the identity of something by modifying its appearance carbon cycle the circulation and reutilization of carbon