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Vocab_Jeniffer by Mind Map: Vocab_Jeniffer

1. Biotic Factors

1.1. Examples

1.1.1. Branch

1.1.2. Paper

1.1.3. Grass

1.1.4. Leaves

1.1.5. Milk

1.2. Definition

1.2.1. Things that are living

1.2.2. Things that were once living

1.2.3. Things that once lived

2. Abiotic Factors

2.1. Examples

2.1.1. Plastic Cup

2.1.2. Water

2.1.3. Air

2.1.4. Sunlight

2.1.5. Dirt

2.2. Definition

2.2.1. Things that are not living

2.2.2. Things that will never live in the future

2.2.3. Things that never lived in the past

3. Biodiversity

3.1. Genetic Biodiversity

3.1.1. One type of genes with many varieties

3.2. Species Biodiversity

3.2.1. Different types of species living in one environment

3.3. Ecosystem Biodiversity

3.3.1. Different types of ecosystems interacting with one another

4. Hot spots

4.1. Where there is a small number of living organisms

5. Species

5.1. Threatened Speceis

5.1.1. When there is a certain species that may become endangered

5.2. Endangered Species

5.2.1. When there is a certain species that may become extinct

5.3. Indicator Species

5.3.1. When there is a certain species that tells you about other things going extinct if killed

6. A healthy Biodiversity means a healthy enviroment

6.1. New medicines and cures for diseases can be made

6.2. Better resistance when faced with challenges like natural disasters

7. Ecological Succession

7.1. Climax Community

7.1.1. Definition: A community that occurs late in succession whose populations remain stable until disrupted by disturbance

7.2. Pioneer Species

7.2.1. Definition: A plant or animal that establishes itself in an unoccupied area

7.3. Definition: The process in which a community or an ecosystem goes through over time

8. Limiting Factors

8.1. Definition

8.1.1. Factors that help limit the size of any living organism in order to keep the carrying capacity low

8.2. Examples

8.2.1. Natural disasters

8.2.2. Diseases

8.2.3. One another

9. Carrying Capacity

9.1. Definition: How much certain places can withstand without chaos of over population

10. Population

10.1. Population Growth

10.1.1. How big a country's population is

10.2. Population Growth Rate

10.2.1. How fast a country's population is growing

10.3. Expotential Growth

10.3.1. When the birth rate is constant over a period of time

11. J-curve

11.1. Definition- Shows that at first, at the bottom, beginning of the graph, the line starts out very slow, but then dramatically increases

12. Water pollution

12.1. Water that is polluted by humans and animals. Things that pollute water.. such as ferterlizer

13. Water purification

13.1. Definition; Water purification is the process of removing undesirable chemicals, materials, and biological contaminants from raw water

14. Watershed

14.1. Definition; a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems

15. Erosion

15.1. the wearing away of the land surface by wind or water

16. Runoff

16.1. chemicals that go into storm drains and then sent to rivers and streams which then the rivers and streams become polluted.

17. Pollutants

17.1. Organic pollutants

17.1.1. Definition; chemicals that are drained down into sinks and that are treated

17.2. Inorganic pollutants

17.2.1. 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

18. Natural Resources

18.1. Non-renewable resource definition - Material or energy source that cannot be replaced within a human life span. ex/ minerals, metals

18.2. Renewable resource definition - Any material or energy source that cycles or can be replaced within a human life span. ex/ water, sunlight,

18.3. Definition; Resources that are produced by nature; found in earth. ex/ wind, steel, food, rocks

19. When changing from one level to another, 90% of the energy is lost and only 10% is consumed.

20. Biomes

20.1. Rainforest

20.2. Temperate Diciduous Forest

20.3. Coniferous forest

20.4. Desert

20.5. Tundra

20.6. Freshwater

20.7. Marine

20.8. Grassland/Savannah

21. Trophic leves

21.1. 1- Producers (Plants)

21.1.1. (The only ones that can change suns energy into energy and provide food for primary consumers)

21.2. 2- Primary Consumers

21.3. 3- Secondary Consumers

21.4. 4- Tertiary

21.5. 5- Decomposers

22. Food Web

22.1. Shows how different types of organisms affect other organisms (looks like a web with energy being passed in defferent directions)

23. Food Chain

23.1. A straight line that shows from where the energy is passed, onto the last consumer.

24. Levels of Organization

24.1. Organism

24.1.1. Smallest

24.1.2. Anything that's living; A single life form

24.2. Population

24.2.1. A group of organisms

24.3. Community

24.3.1. A small area of an ecosystem; A group of different organisms living together

24.4. Ecosystem

24.4.1. Habitats, nature; A group of biotic & abiotic factors interacting with one another in the same habitat

24.5. Biome

24.5.1. Largest

24.5.2. Many ecosystems within one, with a specific climate

25. S-curve

25.1. 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

26. Aquifer

26.1. A large place where water is being purified

27. Desalination

27.1. The removal of salt (especially in salt water)

28. Impermeable

28.1. Surface that does not allow water to get into the ground. Therefore it runs off into storm drains

29. Wetlands

29.1. wetlands are lands on which water covers the soil

30. Urbanization

30.1. Rapid and massive growth of cities

31. Sources

31.1. Non-point sources - sources that cannot be traced back to where they came from

31.2. Point source - sources that can be traced back to where the originally came from