Ally Environmental Science Vocab

1. Food Webs

1.1. Food Chains

1.2. Producer

1.3. Primary Consumer

1.4. Secondary Consumer

1.5. Tertiary Consumer

1.6. Decomposer

1.7. Trophic levels

2. Water Pollution

2.1. Erosion

2.2. Runoff

2.2.1. Impermeable

2.3. Point Source

2.4. Non-Point Source

2.5. Organic Pollutant

2.6. Inorganic Pollutant

3. Wetlands

3.1. Watersheds

3.2. Urbanization

4. Natural Resources

4.1. Renewable Resource

4.2. Nonrenewable Resources

5. Water Purification

5.1. Aquifers

5.2. Desalination

6. Biomes

6.1. Ecosystem

6.1.1. Community

6.1.1.1. Population

6.1.1.1.1. Organism

6.1.1.1.2. Limiting factors

6.1.2. Biotic factors

6.1.3. Abiotic factors

6.1.4. Indicator Species

6.2. Examples

6.2.1. Marine

6.2.2. Deciduous Forest

6.2.3. Desert

6.2.4. Grasslands

6.2.5. Rainforest

6.2.6. Tundra

6.2.7. Coniferous Forest

6.2.8. Freshwater

7. Biodiversity

7.1. Threatened Species

7.1.1. Endangered Species

7.2. Genetic Biodiversity

7.3. Species Biodiversity

7.4. Ecosystem Biodiversity

7.5. Hot Spot

8. Ecological Sucession

8.1. Primary Sucession

8.2. Secondary Sucession

8.2.1. Pioneer Species

8.2.2. Climax Community

9. Population Growth

9.1. Population Growth Rate

9.2. Exponential Growth

9.2.1. J-Curve

9.3. S-Curve