Roya Environmental Science Vocab

by Roya Weidman

1. Organism

1.1. Dog

1.2. Tree

1.3. Cat

1.3.1. New node

2. Food Chain

3. Biome

3.1. Freshwater Biome

3.2. Tundra Biome

3.3. Desert Biome

3.4. Forest Biome

3.4.1. Temperate Deciduous Forest

3.4.2. Rainforest

3.4.3. Coniferous Forest

3.5. Marine Biome

3.6. Grassland/Savannah Biome

4. Abiotic Factors

5. Population

6. Food Web

7. Ecosystem

7.1. New node

8. Biotic Factors

9. Community

9.1. School of fish

9.2. Flock of geese

9.3. Pack of wolves

10. Trophic Levels

10.1. Primary Consumers

10.2. Secondary Consumers

10.3. Tertiary Consumers

10.4. Producers

10.5. Decomposers

11. Biodiversity

11.1. Genetic Biodiversity

11.2. Species Biodiversity

11.3. Ecosystem Biodiversity

12. Hot Spots

13. Endangered Species

14. Threatened Species

15. Indicator Species

16. Ecological Succession

16.1. Primary Succession

16.2. Secondary Succession

17. Pioneer Species

18. Climax Community

19. Limiting Factors

19.1. Carrying Capacity

20. Population Growth

20.1. Population Growth Rate

20.2. Exponential Growth

20.3. J- Curve

20.4. S-Curve

21. Water Pollution

21.1. Causes

21.1.1. Runoff

21.1.2. Urbanization

21.1.3. Organic pollutant

21.1.4. Inorganic pollutant

21.2. Effects

21.2.1. Erosion

21.3. Pont source

21.4. Non point source

22. Aquifer

23. Water Purification

23.1. Desalination

24. Watershed

25. Impermeable Surface

26. Resources

26.1. Natural resources

26.2. Renewable resources

26.3. Non-renewable resources

27. Wetlands