Ecosystems
One Organism
When organisms of different species living close together in a way that benefits both
What is Mutualism
When certain bacteria that live in the soil, or in symbiotic relationship with plant root nodules convert N2 into ammonia
What is Bacterial fixation?
The concept that 10% of the energy from a organism is passed to whatever eats it.
What is the 10% rule?
The concentration of salt in a body of water.
What is Salinity?
A group of individuals of the same species
What is a population?
An animal that eats plant for energy
What is a Herbivore?
When plants & animals taking Nitrogen in and incorporating it into their body
What is assimilation?
Animals that eat plants
What are Primary Consumers?
A carbon reservoir that stores more carbon than it releases
What is a Carbon Sink?
All organisms living together in one area
What is a community?
An animal that kills other animals to consume their meat for energy.
What is a carnivore?
When soil bacteria, microbes & decomposers converting waste & dead biomass back into NH3 and returning it to soil
What is Ammonification?
Animals that eat secondary consumers or carnivores & omnivores
What are Tertiary Consumers
Fossilized remains of organism Matter form into Coal, Oil, and Natural gas.
What are Fossil fuels?
All living and non-living things in one area
What is an Ecosystem?
Something that uses another organism for energy.
What is a Parasite?
The conversion of NH4 into nitrite & then nitrate by soil bacteria
What is Nitrification?
Plants that convert the suns light into energy/glucose
What are Producers?
An area with soil submerged in water for at least part of the year, but shallow enough for emergent plants
What is a wetland?
A large area that has its own conditions such as climate and landscape that determine the things that live there.
What is a Biome?
Something that lays eggs inside a host organism then eggs hatch & larvae eat host for energy
What is a Parasitoids?
The conversion of soil Nitrogen (NO3) into nitrous oxide (N2O) gas which returns to atmosphere
What is denitrification?
Animals that eat primary consumers or herbivores
What are Secondary consumers?
The process plants use to draw groundwater from roots up to their leaves
What is transpiration?