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