Kush - Enviormental Science Vocab.

1. Food Chain

1.1. producers

1.1.1. Plants

1.1.2. Grass

1.2. primary consumer ( 1 degree )

1.2.1. Flies

1.2.2. Snails

1.3. secondary consumer ( 2 degree)

1.3.1. Snakes

1.3.2. Frogs

1.4. tertiary consumers ( 3 degree )

1.4.1. Blue Heron

1.5. decomposers

1.5.1. Mushrooms

1.5.2. Fungi

2. Food Web

2.1. Shows energy transfer between trophic levels

3. Biodiversity

3.1. Genetic Biodiversity

3.2. Species Biodiversity

3.3. Ecosystem Biodiversity

4. Hot Spots

5. Species

5.1. Endangered Species

5.2. Threatened Species

5.3. Indicator Species

5.4. Pioneer Species

6. Ecological Succession

6.1. Primary Succession

6.2. Secondary Succession

6.3. Climax Community

7. Population

7.1. Limiting factors affect -->

7.2. Popualation has a carrying capacity

8. Population Growth

8.1. Population Growth Rate

8.1.1. J-Curve

8.1.2. S-Curve

8.2. Exponential Growth

9. water pollution

9.1. Point Source

9.2. Non-point Source

9.3. Organic Pollutant

9.3.1. Animal waste

9.3.2. Food Scraps

9.4. Inorganic Pollutant

9.4.1. Chemicals

9.4.2. Aluminum Cans

9.5. Runoff

9.6. Erosion

10. Natural resources

10.1. Renewable Resources

10.2. Non-renewable Resources

11. Aquifer

12. Wetlands

13. Urbanization

14. Biome

14.1. Tundra

14.2. Desert

14.3. Rainforest

14.4. Temperate Deciduous Forest

14.5. Coniferous Forest

14.6. Freshwater

14.7. Marine

14.8. Grasslands/Savannah

15. Small to big

15.1. Orgainism

15.2. Popullation

15.3. Community

15.4. Ecosystem

15.4.1. Abiotic factors

15.4.2. Biotic factors

15.5. Biome

16. Water Purification

16.1. Desalination

17. Watershed

17.1. How they can be created

17.1.1. Impermeable