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The fast growth of a population with unlimited resources.
What is exponential growth?
The gradual growth of a population with limited resources.
What is logistic growth?
The movement of organisms out of an area.
What is emigration?
The movement of organisms into an area.
What is immigration?
The maximum number of organisms an environment can sustain.
What is carrying capacity?
The burning of fossil fuels releasing CO2 into the atmosphere.
What is combustion?
A stable and balanced ecosystem with both plants and animals.
What is a climax community?
An organism that feeds on dead plant or animal material.
What is a detritivore?
The stable or constant numbers of organisms in an environment.
What is steady state?
The breakdown of organic material releasing carbon into the ground.
What is decomposition?
A biotic/abiotic factor that slows or stops a population from growing.
What is limiting factors?
This is the name of Dr. Emmett's daughter.
Who is Claire?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
Ms. Nelson attended this university.
What is Radford?
The absorption of carbon by animals by feeding.
What is consumption?
An increase of nutrients in an ecosystem; increases in algae growth.
What is eutrophication?
The conversion of CO2 into C6H12O6 by plants.
What is photosynthesis?
What is fossilization?
The first organisms to colonize a new habitat after a disturbance.
What is a pioneer species?
The conversion of C6H12O6 into CO2 by plants and animals.
What is cellular respiration?
The conversion of N2 in the atmosphere to ammonia (NH3).
What is nitrogen fixation?
The process of converting ammonia (NH3) to nitrates/nitrites (NO2).
What is nitrification?
The increase in concentration of a substance through the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
The increase in concentration of a substance in an organism.
What is bioaccumulation?
The absorption of nitrates/nitrites into plants and animals.
What is assimiliation?