Vocabulary
The relationship in which both organisms benefit.
What is Mutualism
When a population is growing at an exponential rate
Exponential growth
The rotation of water throughout the globe; consists of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
What is the water cycle
The gas that most directly causes climate change
What is carbon dioxide
An organism that makes its own food
What is an autotroph or producer
The breaking of the Ozone layer
The most amount of an organism one ecosystem can carry
What is carrying capacity
The driving organism in the nitrogen cycle
What is bacteria
The major gas made by cattle and other organisms that heavily adds to climate change
What is methane
An organism that eats dead animals
What are scavengers
A factor of an ecosystem that is living
What is biotic
The study of population growth
What is demographics
The name of the bacteria that changes nitrogen into ammonia
What is n-fixing bacteria
The biggest thing humans are doing that influences climate change
What is burning fossil fuels
Where an organism lives
What is habitat
A connection of food chains to make an interconnected chain.
What is food web
This type of animal will always have populations above predators in a stable ecosystems.
What is prey
The cycle that includes photosynthesis, acidification, respiration, decomposition, deposition, and combustion
What is the carbon cycle
The action in which people cut down trees for space and resources. This lowers the amount of carbon dioxide that is taken out of the atmosphere
What is deforestation.
The types of organisms that eat the producers in a food web
What are primary consumers
A group of populations of similar species
The amount of children per one woman
What is total fertility rate
The process in which water goes into the ground and gets stored as groundwater
What is infiltration
The 3 biggest gases involved in climate change
What are carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor
The amount of energy lost in percentage going up in trophic levels
What is 10%