Marie Koder's environmental science web!!!

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1. Biome

1.1. Desert

1.2. Rainforest

1.3. Tundra

1.4. Coniferous forest

1.5. Freshwater

1.6. Grassland

1.7. Temperate decidiuous forest

1.8. Marine

2. Types of Biodiversity

2.1. Ecosystem

2.1.1. Community

2.1.1.1. Population

2.1.1.1.1. Organism

2.2. Species

2.2.1. Endangered

2.2.2. Threatened

2.3. Genetic

3. Hot Spots

3.1. Hotspots are when some ecosystems have more species than others.

4. Biodiversity

4.1. Biodiversity is the variety of organisms in an ecosystem.

5. Carring Capcity

5.1. Carry capcity is how much an ecocsystem can provide for the animal and plant life in that environment.

5.2. Limiting factors can help an ecocsystem keep its population below its carring capcity.

6. Source

6.1. Point source

6.1.1. Point Source is when you can trace a pollutant back to its original source.

6.2. Non-point source

6.2.1. Non-point source is when you can not trace a pollutant back to its source.

7. Resource

7.1. Natural resources

7.2. Renewable

7.2.1. This means that the resource can keep being supplied.

7.3. Non-renewable

7.3.1. This means that the resource cannot be replaced.

8. Pollution

8.1. Organic pollutant

8.2. Inorganic pollutant

9. Trophic Levels

9.1. Producer

9.2. Primary Consumer

9.3. Secondary Consumer

9.4. Teritary Consumer

9.5. Decomposer

10. Ecosystem

10.1. Trophic Levels

10.2. Biotic Factors

10.2.1. Something that was or still is living.It can also be part of a once living thing.

10.3. Abiotic Factors

10.3.1. Something that was never living and never will be living.

11. Succession

11.1. Primary

11.1.1. Pioneer species

11.1.2. Climax Community

11.2. Secondary

11.3. Ecological

11.4. Indicator

12. Population

12.1. population growth

12.2. population growth rate

12.2.1. J-curve

12.2.2. S-curve

12.3. Expotential growth

13. Water pollution

13.1. Aquifer

13.1.1. An aquifer can help purify water so that way it is drinkable to humans.

13.2. Desalination

13.3. Water purification

14. Water!

14.1. Watershed

14.2. Impermeable surface

14.2.1. An impermeable surface is when water can not soak into the ground.For example a parking lot or a sidewalk.

14.3. Erosion

14.3.1. This can be caused if there are not enough trees or deep rooted plants by a river bank.Therefore dirt and sediment will runoff into the river and cause pollution.

14.4. Runoff

14.4.1. This can carry heavy amounts of pollutants that can run into a river,lake or stream.These pollutants carried in the runoff can kill aquatic life and other organisms.Runoff can be kept from polluting these rivers,streams,and lakes if by impermeable surfaces,deep rooted plants were put around them and if people would be careful of what debris they put into the streets and down into the sewers.

14.5. Wetlands

14.5.1. Wetlands can help with pollution problems.For example since they have numerous plant life,those plants help clean the air.Also any runoff from a nearby town or city,the wetland's deep rooted plants would absorb the runoff therefore protecting anything else that could have been harmed if it came in contact with the polluted runoff.

14.5.1.1. Urbanization

14.5.1.1.1. This can cause wetlands to be destroyed.