1. Food Chain
1.1. Definition: Show the sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as one eats the other
1.2. Example of Food Chain
1.2.1. Sun
1.2.1.1. Grass
1.2.1.1.1. Cow
2. Trphic Level Pyramid
2.1. Producer (plants)
2.1.1. An organism that produces it's own energy from the sun.
2.2. Primary Consumer (1 degree)
2.2.1. An organism that eats a producer.
2.3. Secondary Consumer (2 degree)
2.3.1. An organism that eats primary consumers.
2.4. Tertiary Consumer (3 degree)
2.4.1. Eats the secondary consumers.
3. Abiotic/Biotic Factors
3.1. Abiotic Factors- the nonliving parts of an ecosystem
3.2. Biotic Factors- the living parts of an ecosystem
4. Biodiversity
4.1. Diversity among and within plant and animal species in an envirnment
4.2. Hot Spots- a place where population is growing rapidly
5. Limiting Factors
5.1. Carrying Compacity
5.1.1. The highest amount of people an ecosystem can hold while still functioning well
5.2. Definition- conditions of the enivirnment that limit the grow of a species
5.3. Pioneer Species
5.3.1. Species that is native to an area
5.4. Hot Spots
5.4.1. A place where species are growing rapidly
6. Water Pollution
6.1. definition- contaiminaton of water
6.2. Aquifer
6.2.1. The desaltation of water
6.3. Point Source pollution
6.4. Non-Point Solution
7. Levels of Organization Pyramid
7.1. Organism
7.1.1. any for of life
7.2. Population
7.2.1. group of individual of the same species found in a given area or located in the same area
7.3. Community
7.3.1. population of living organisms that interact with one another
7.4. Ecosystem
7.4.1. group of living organisms that interact with one another and the non-living physical envirnment
7.5. Biome
7.5.1. region of Earth were plants and animals live
7.6. Biosphere
7.6.1. layer of soil, water, and air that sustain life
8. Food Web
8.1. Definition- a whole bunch of food chains. They show us that organisms eat a lot mor than just one thing
9. Biomes
9.1. Rainforest- Queets Rainforest
9.2. Temperate Diciduous Forest- Pennsylvania Forest
9.3. Coniferous Forest
9.4. Desert- Nambi
9.5. Tundra the orange spots are tundras
9.6. Grasslands/Savannah
9.7. Freshwater Biome light blue spots are freshwater biomes
9.8. Marine Biome
10. Succession
10.1. Primary
10.1.1. occurs in a place where an ecosystem has never excisted
10.2. Secondary
10.2.1. begins in places when something has disturbed or destroyed the nature
10.3. Climax Community
10.3.1. At the end of primary or secondary succession it becomes this
10.4. Definition- a process in which the communitites of an ecosystem changes overtime
11. Population Growth
11.1. Definition- an increase of people in a territory or state
11.2. Black Plague
11.2.1. A disease that killed the most amount of humans ever
11.3. Industrial Revolution
11.3.1. The period where the population soared in U.S. history
12. Exponential Growth
12.1. Definiton- increase in population at a rapid rate
12.2. Sustainability
12.2.1. to be able to hold up with the conditions
12.3. Logistic Growth
12.4. J-Curve
12.5. S-Curve
12.6. Population growth rate
12.6.1. Population that growth over time