Vocab

1. Levels of Organization

1.1. organism

1.2. population

1.3. community

1.4. ecosystem

1.5. biome

1.6. biosphere

2. Energy Transfer

2.1. Food Chain

2.2. Food Web

2.3. Producer

2.4. Primary consumer

2.5. Secondary Consumer

2.6. Tertiary Consumer

2.7. Trophic Levels

3. Ecosystems

3.1. Biotic factors

3.2. Abiotic factors

3.3. Biodiversity

3.4. Hot spots

4. Limiting Factors

4.1. carrying capacity

4.2. ecological succession

4.3. primary succession

4.4. secondary succession

4.5. pioneer species

4.6. climax community

4.7. limiting factors

5. Population

5.1. population growth

5.2. Black Plague

5.3. Industrial Revolution

5.4. Exponential growth

5.5. sustainability

5.6. Logistic growth

5.7. J-curve

5.8. S-curve

5.9. Population growth rate

6. Water Pollution

6.1. Aquifer

6.2. water pollution

6.3. point-source pollution

6.4. non-point source

7. Biomes

7.1. Rainforest

7.2. Temperate deciduous forest

7.3. Coniferous forest

7.4. desert

7.5. Tundra

7.6. Grassland/Savannah

7.7. Freshwater biome

7.8. Marine biome