Food Web
What is an organism that relies on other organisms?
Heterotroph / Consumer
What is a habitat?
Where organisms live
What is an example of independent population density?
Volcanoes, weather, floods, tornadoes ETC.
What are ecosystem services?
Benefits an ecosystem gives humans
what is the main factor in a secondary succesion
The environment isn't entirely destroyed
What is a primary producer?
The first trophic level with the most energy
What is global warming?
Long term heating of Earth's surface
What are population density dependent factors?
Predators, prey, ETC.
What is a keystone species?
An organism that helps define an entire ecyosystem.
What is a niche?
What is species diversity?
Number of species in the amount of each in a area
What is a ecological footprint?
Method that determines how dependent humans are on a natural rescourse
What is a cause for primary succession?
Volcanoes
What is a more simple version of a food Web?
What is a interaction between two different organisms in a habitat?
Symbiosis
Phytoplankton
Plankton with microscopic plants, underwater primary producers
What is a human altered terrestrial biosphere?
An Anthrome
What is denitrification?
The loss of nitrogen from nitrogen compounds like soil
What are Photosynthesis and Chemosysnthesis
One uses light to make food, and the other uses chemicals to make food/nutrients