Sustainability and Management
Responsibly using and conserving resources to support long-term ecological balance
What is sustainability?
A group of organisms of the same species occupying a particular space at the same time
What is a population?
An ecological interaction where two species benefit from each other
What is mutualism?
a large, naturally occurring ecological level that includes forest and aquatic habitats.
What are biomes?
What is the study of the relationship between an organism and its environment?
Ecology
Efforts by humans to manage organisms and their environments
What is ecosystem management?
An individual member of a population
What is an organism?
An interaction where one species benefits while the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
a smaller community where biotic and abiotic elements interact
What is an ecosystem?
What term describes the sum of the Earth's surfaces, atmosphere, and hydrosphere occupied by living organisms?
Biosphere
Physical change through time
What is temporal change?
They consume decayed plants and animals
What are detritivores?
the term for when one species kills another for food
What is predation?
Herbivores that consume only plants
What are Primary consumers?
What is the term for non-living factors in an ecosystem?
Abiotic
One refers to plants and the other refers to animals in an area
What are flora and fauna?
Any part of the earth suitable to support species
What is a habitat?
the assemblage of different populations of flora and fauna in an area
What is a community?
organisms that produce food or biomass through photosynthesis
What are producers?
the term for the struggle between two organisms for resources.
What is competition?
A linear representation showing the flow of energy from one organism to another
What is a food chain?
How organisms match specific environmental conditions and respond to distribution of resources and competitors
What is a niche?
The struggle between two organisms for the same resources
What is competition?
the term for the exchange or conversion of nutrients through biological and chemical processes
What is Nutrient cycling?
the process by which ecosystems advance toward a climax community
What is ecological succession?