Enviromental Science Vocab Justin

by Justin Schwarz

1. Biomes

1.1. rainforest

1.2. grassland/savannah

1.3. Tundra

1.4. Temperate Deciduous Forest

1.5. Desert

1.6. Coniferous Forest

1.7. Marine

1.7.1. New node

1.8. Freshwater

1.8.1. Wetlands

1.8.2. Watershed

1.8.3. Aquifer

1.9. Indicator Species

2. Organism

2.1. Fish

2.2. Bear

2.3. Human

2.4. Gecko

2.5. Aboitic Factors

3. Biotic Factors

3.1. Hot Spot

3.2. Food Chain

3.3. Endangered Species

3.4. Threatened Species

3.5. Population

3.6. Trophic Levels

3.7. Community

3.8. Ecosystem

3.9. Carrying Capacity

3.10. Primary Succession

3.11. Secondary Succession

3.12. pioneer species

3.13. climax community

3.14. limiting factors

3.15. carrying cappacity

3.16. Population growth

3.17. Population growth rate

3.18. Exponential growth

3.19. J-curve

3.20. S-curve

3.21. Water pollution

3.22. Desalination

3.23. Water purification

3.24. Impermeable

3.25. Erosion

3.26. Runoff

3.27. Urbanization

3.28. Point source

3.29. Non-point source

3.30. Biodiverstity

3.30.1. Genetic Biodiversity

3.30.2. Species Biodiversity

3.30.3. Ecosystem Biodiversity

4. Food Web

4.1. Producers

4.2. Decomposers

4.3. Abiotic

4.4. Biotic

4.5. Consumers

4.5.1. Primary Consumers

4.5.2. Secondary Consumers

4.5.3. Tertairy Consumers

5. pollutant

5.1. Organic pollutant

5.2. Inorganic pollutant

6. Resoucres

6.1. Natural resources

6.2. Renewable resource

6.3. Nonrenewable resource

7. Abiotic Factors