Vocab 12

1. Biomass: the total mass of living organism
3. pelagic environment beyond the shelf break
4. the bottom below 6,000 m
9. bottom between that shelf break and a depth of approximately 4,000 m
11. :a non-living (physical or chemical) component of the environment
13. resource:An essential factor whose short supply limits the growth of a population
14. partitioning:the sharing of resources by specialization
16. growth:unrestricted population growth where the population grows at a faster rate with each successive generation

1. bottom from a depth of approximately 4,000 m to 6,000
2. that live in the water column,away from the bottom ,including the plankton and nekton
5. organism that lives on the bottom
6. level: each of the steps in a food chain
7. exclusion:the elimination of one species by another as a result of competition
8. capacity:the maximum population size that can be sustained by available resources in a given environment
9. the study of the interactions between an organism and their environment
10. growth:population growth that is constrained by biotic or abiotic factors such as competition or nutrients
12. the pelagic environment above the continental shelf
15. a living component of an environment