Environmental vocab-Stephanie

1. Food web/ Food chain

1.1. Producers

1.2. Primary Consumers

1.3. Secondary Consumers

1.4. Tertiary Consumers

1.5. Decomposers

1.6. These are the trophic levels.

2. Biodiversity

2.1. Genetic biodiversity

2.2. Species biodiversity

2.3. Ecosystem biodiversity

3. Categorizing

3.1. Organism

3.2. Population

3.3. Community

3.4. Ecosystem

3.5. Biotic factors

3.6. Abiotic factors

4. Species to be aware of.

4.1. Indicator species

4.2. Endangered species

4.3. Threatened species

4.4. Pioneer species

4.5. Climax community

4.6. Hot spots

5. Water Pollution

5.1. Point Source

5.2. Non Point source

5.3. Organic pollutant

5.4. Inorganic pollutant

5.5. impermeable material

5.6. runoff

5.7. Urbanization

6. Biomes

6.1. Rainforest

6.2. Temperate Deciduous Forest

6.3. Coniferous forest

6.4. Desert

6.5. Tundra

6.6. Freshwater Biome

6.7. Marine Biome

6.8. Grassland/Savannah

7. New node

8. Succession

8.1. Ecological succession

8.2. Primary succession

8.3. Secondary succession

9. Having to do with population

9.1. Limiting factors

9.2. Carrying capacity

9.3. Population growth

9.4. Population growth rate

9.5. Exponential growth

9.6. J-curve

9.7. S-curve

10. Having to do with water

10.1. Aquifer

10.2. Desilination

10.3. water purification

10.4. watershed

10.5. erosion

10.6. Wetlands

11. Types of resources

11.1. renewable resources

11.2. nonrenewable resources

11.3. natural resources