Kathryne Environmental Science Vocabulary

1. Hot Spots

2. Biodiversity

2.1. Genetic Biodiversity

2.2. Species Biodiversity

2.3. Ecosystem Biodiversity

3. Endangered Species

4. Abiotic

4.1. Rock

4.2. Wind

4.3. Water

5. Biotic

5.1. Dino

5.2. Corpse

5.3. Flower

6. Threaten Species

7. Energy Pyramid

7.1. Trophic Levels

7.1.1. Primary Consumer

7.1.2. Secondary Consumer

7.1.3. Tertiary Consumer

8. Indicator Species

9. Food Chain

10. Producers

11. Decomposer

12. Ecological Succession

12.1. Primary succession

12.2. Secondary succession

12.3. Pioneer species

12.4. Climax community

13. Pollution

13.1. Water pollution

13.2. Runoff

13.3. Point source

13.4. Non-point source

13.5. Organic pollutant

13.6. Inorganic pollutant

13.7. Erosion

13.8. Urbanization

13.9. Impermeable surface

14. Water

14.1. Aquifer

14.2. Water purification

14.3. Desalination

14.4. Watershed

15. Food Web

16. Biomes

16.1. Freshwater Biome

16.2. Marine Biome

16.3. Coniferous forest Biome

16.4. Decidious forest Biome

16.5. Savvanna Biome

17. Population

18. Organism

18.1. Leaf

18.2. Fish

18.3. Turtle

19. Community

20. Ecosystem

20.1. Pond

20.2. Freshwater

20.3. Rain forest

20.4. Desert

20.5. Grassland

20.6. Tundra

20.7. Watershed

20.8. Wetland

21. Consumer

22. Exponential Growth

22.1. J-curve

22.2. Population Growth

22.3. Growth Rate

23. S-curve

24. Carring Capacity

25. Limiting Factors

26. Natural resources

26.1. Renewable resource

26.2. Nonrenewable resource