Sustainability
The three pillars of sustainability.
What is Social, Economic, and Environmental?
Term for non-living part of an ecosystem
What is Abiotic factors?
Name of organisms like plants that form the base of food chains
What are producers/autotrophs?
Any organism that exists to hunt other organisms
What are predators?
When two different species help one another
What is Mutualism?
An Indicator
What is an observation, fact, or calculation that shows a pattern about a topic or problem of interest?
Term that refers to all the biotic factors of an ecosystem
What are communities?
The process by which phytoplankton capture the sun's energy and turns it into glucose (food)
What is Photosynthesis
The maximum population size of a population an given area can sustain
What is carrying capacity
The relations between a species that is the host and a species which grows at expense of the host
What is Parasitism?
The impact of a person, business, or country on Earth’s resources
What is an ecological footprint?
What are three categories all living things can be placed in. Hint: acquisition of energy
What is producers, consumers, and decomposers?
The process in which living things get energy
What is Cellular Respiration
The abiotic factors that plants compete with each other for.
What is sunlight or water?
When two male rams fight over a mate this is an example of?
What is Intraspecific Competition?
In a community that is highly developed, these sustainability challenges are most likely happening
What is high energy and water consumption?
All life on Earth falls under
What is the Biosphere
An intricate diagram showing what-eats-what within an ecological community. Arrows from prey to predator.
What is a Food Web
Examples of this limiting factor include disease an space
What is a Density-Dependent Factor?
When an elephant walks through a grassland, the symbiotic relationship between the large creature and the grass is.
What is Amensalism?
The pros and cons of a decision
What is a Trade off?
In order to make a group of ecosystems into a Biome what must the ecosystems share
What is Climate? "Temperature and Moisture"
Besides the mitochondrion what is the other area within a cell cellular respiration can take place. Hint think anaerobic respiration.
What is Cytoplasm?
The change in population size over time due to birth and death rates.
What is its population growth rate?
The term for the battle for a common between two different species
What is Interspecific Competition