Vocabulary

1. food chain, food web, producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer.

2. biotic factors abiotic factors biodiversity.

3. pioneer species, climax community, limiting factors, carrying capacity, population growth.

4. J-curve, S-curve, population growth rate.

5. aquifer, water pollution, point source, non-point source.

6. organism, population,community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere.

7. trophic levels, rain forests, temporate deciduous forest, coniferous forest, desert, grassland/savana, freashwater biome, marine biome.

8. hot spots, ecological succession, primary succession, secondary succession.

9. black plague, industrial revolution, exponential growth, sustainability, logistic growth.