Kelsey's Mind Map Vocab Project

1. Population Growth: The growth of a population in an ecosystem.

1.1. The Black Plague: The cause for the largest decrease in population.

1.2. Industrial Revolution: The cause of the exponential growth of the population.

1.3. Eponential Growth: The rapid growth of a population in a slighly short amount of time.

2. Trophic Levels: Levels which show the flow of energy through predators and their prey.

3. Desert: A dry, arid climate where there is barely enough water to keep some plants alive.

3.1. Tundra: An area where there is no tree growth due to low temperatures.

3.2. Grasslands: Areas where there are no wood plants, but only grasses and herbacious plants.

4. Freshwater biome: An area of water with a high salt content.

4.1. Marine Biome: The largest biome that is made up of all types of aquatic biomes.

5. Biodiversity: The diversity of organisms in an ecosystem.

6. Primary Succession: When an ecosystem grows out of almost nothing.

6.1. Ecological Succession: The strutural change in an ecosystem.

6.2. Secondary Succession: When an ecosystem takes root after another ecosystem had been destroyed.

7. Pioneer Species: The first species to move into an area and be the catalyst for a new ecosystem.

7.1. Climax Community: The last community to become a part of the new ecosystem thus ending the succession whether it would be primary or secondary.

8. Limiting Factors: The factors that limit the growth of a population.

8.1. Carrying Capaity: The largest population an ecosystem can hold.

8.2. Population growth rate: The rate at which a population grows in an ecosystem.

9. Biosphere: A layer of soil, water, and air that sustains life.

9.1. Biomes: A region of earth that is inhabited by one kind

9.2. Ecosystems: A group of living organisms that interact with nonliving things.

9.3. Communities: Populations of living organisms that interact with each other in an ecosystem

9.4. Populations: Group of the same species found in one place at one time.

9.5. Organisms: Any form of life.

10. Food Chain: A chain that shows how energy is passed through the trophic levels.

10.1. Food Web: A more detailed version of a food chain that shows more possiblities of where the energy could go.

11. Producer: An organism that can produce its own food.

11.1. Primary Consumer: An organism that consumes producers.

11.2. Secondary Consumer: An organism that consumes primary consumers.

11.3. Tertiary Consumer: An organism that consumes secondary consumers.

12. Rainforest - Forests that are characterized by high rain fall.

12.1. Coniferous forest: A forest that mainly consists of the coniferous type of trees.

12.2. Temperate deciduous forest: A forest that consists of trees whose leaves fall off every year.

13. Biotic Factors: Anything that was living or was once living.

13.1. Abiotic Factors: Anything that is not living and never was living.

14. Hot Spots: Spots all over the earth where there is the most biodiversity.

15. Sustainability: The ability for an ecosystem to sustain a population.

16. Logistic Growth: When a population reaches the carrying capacity and levels off.

17. S - Curve: Shown on a graph when a population reaches it's carrying capacity and levels off making the shape of an s.

17.1. J - curve: When exponential growth is shown on a graph it makes the shape of a j.

18. Water pollution: When harmful chemicals posion a water source.

18.1. Point Source: When there is a specific source for pollution.

18.2. Non - point source: When there isn't a specific source for pollution.

18.3. Aquifer: An underground formation that contains water.