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Vocab_Jeniffer
by Jeniffer Jaimes 01/15/2010
Vocab_Jeniffer
by Jeniffer Jaimes
1. When changing from one level to another, 90% of the energy is lost and only 10% is consumed.
2. Biomes
2.1. Rainforest
2.2. Temperate Diciduous Forest
2.3. Coniferous forest
2.4. Desert
2.5. Tundra
2.6. Freshwater
2.7. Marine
2.8. Grassland/Savannah
3. Trophic leves
3.1. 1- Producers (Plants)
3.1.1. (The only ones that can change suns energy into energy and provide food for primary consumers)
3.2. 2- Primary Consumers
3.3. 3- Secondary Consumers
3.4. 4- Tertiary
3.5. 5- Decomposers
4. Biotic Factors
4.1. Examples
4.1.1. Branch
4.1.2. Paper
4.1.3. Grass
4.1.4. Leaves
4.1.5. Milk
4.2. Definition
4.2.1. Things that are living
4.2.2. Things that were once living
4.2.3. Things that once lived
5. Abiotic Factors
5.1. Examples
5.1.1. Plastic Cup
5.1.2. Water
5.1.3. Air
5.1.4. Sunlight
5.1.5. Dirt
5.2. Definition
5.2.1. Things that are not living
5.2.2. Things that will never live in the future
5.2.3. Things that never lived in the past
6. Biodiversity
6.1. Genetic Biodiversity
6.1.1. One type of genes with many varieties
6.2. Species Biodiversity
6.2.1. Different types of species living in one environment
6.3. Ecosystem Biodiversity
6.3.1. Different types of ecosystems interacting with one another
7. Hot spots
7.1. Where there is a small number of living organisms
8. Species
8.1. Threatened Speceis
8.1.1. When there is a certain species that may become endangered
8.2. Endangered Species
8.2.1. When there is a certain species that may become extinct
8.3. Indicator Species
8.3.1. When there is a certain species that tells you about other things going extinct if killed
9. A healthy Biodiversity means a healthy enviroment
9.1. New medicines and cures for diseases can be made
9.2. Better resistance when faced with challenges like natural disasters
10. Food Web
10.1. Shows how different types of organisms affect other organisms (looks like a web with energy being passed in defferent directions)
11. Food Chain
11.1. A straight line that shows from where the energy is passed, onto the last consumer.
12. Ecological Succession
12.1. Climax Community
12.1.1. Definition: A community that occurs late in succession whose populations remain stable until disrupted by disturbance
12.2. Pioneer Species
12.2.1. Definition: A plant or animal that establishes itself in an unoccupied area
12.3. Definition: The process in which a community or an ecosystem goes through over time
13. Levels of Organization
13.1. Organism
13.1.1. Smallest
13.1.2. Anything that's living; A single life form
13.2. Population
13.2.1. A group of organisms
13.3. Community
13.3.1. A small area of an ecosystem; A group of different organisms living together
13.4. Ecosystem
13.4.1. Habitats, nature; A group of biotic & abiotic factors interacting with one another in the same habitat
13.5. Biome
13.5.1. Largest
13.5.2. Many ecosystems within one, with a specific climate
14. Limiting Factors
14.1. Definition
14.1.1. Factors that help limit the size of any living organism in order to keep the carrying capacity low
14.2. Examples
14.2.1. Natural disasters
14.2.2. Diseases
14.2.3. One another
15. Carrying Capacity
15.1. Definition: How much certain places can withstand without chaos of over population
16. Population
16.1. Population Growth
16.1.1. How big a country's population is
16.2. Population Growth Rate
16.2.1. How fast a country's population is growing
16.3. Expotential Growth
16.3.1. When the birth rate is constant over a period of time
17. J-curve
17.1. Definition- Shows that at first, at the bottom, beginning of the graph, the line starts out very slow, but then dramatically increases
18. S-curve
18.1. Definition- Shows that at first, the line starts out slow, but then later on in the graph, it increases, but then at last, levels of and stays constant
19. Water pollution
19.1. Water that is polluted by humans and animals. Things that pollute water.. such as ferterlizer
20. Aquifer
20.1. A large place where water is being purified
21. Desalination
21.1. The removal of salt (especially in salt water)
22. Water purification
22.1. Definition; Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, materials, and biological contaminants from raw water
23. Watershed
23.1. Definition; a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
24. Impermeable
24.1. Surface that does not allow water to get into the ground. Therefore it runs off into storm drains
25. Erosion
25.1. the wearing away of the land surface by wind or water
26. Runoff
26.1. chemicals that go into storm drains and then sent to rivers and streams which then the rivers and streams become polluted.
27. Wetlands
27.1. wetlands are lands on which water covers the soil
28. Urbanization
28.1. Rapid and massive growth of cities
29. Sources
29.1. Non-point sources - sources that cannot be traced back to where they came from
29.2. Point source - sources that can be traced back to where the originally came from
30. Pollutants
30.1. Organic pollutants
30.1.1. Definition; chemicals that are drained down into sinks and that are treated
30.2. Inorganic pollutants
30.2.1. Definitions; chemicals used in everyday life by humans but that are washed down storm drainers and therefore it cant be traced back to where it came from
