Vocabulary
a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit.
What is mutualism?
the act of water vapor turning into clouds.
What is condensation?
the type of growth that populations do not do.
What is linear growth?
What is climate change?
two organisms that can reproduce successfully together.
What is a species?
the rule referencing how much energy generally travels from one trophic level to the next.
What is the rule of 10s?
the organism that carries the nitrogen cycle
What is bacteria?
the number of children each woman has on average.
What is total fertility rate?
carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane are all examples of this.
What are greenhouse gases?
the variable that is being measured in an experiment.
What is the dependent variable?
any structural or physiological process that enables organisms to better survive (something the organism is born with).
What is adaptation?
we use it to create DNA and proteins.
What is nitrogen?
relationships that many times keep organisms at carrying capacity.
What is predator/prey relationships?
causes habitat fragmentation, forces animals into confined areas, and increase carbon dioxide levels.
What is deforestation?
a graph with many feeding pathways.
What is a food web?
maintaining a constant and balanced environment.
What is homeostasis?
the act in which nitrates are pulled up from the soil by plants in the nitrogen cycle
what is assimilation
this is what happens when the number of organisms in the population greatly exceeds the carrying capacity of their environment, lowering the carrying capacity.
What is an overshoot?
the increase in concentration of pollutants as it makes its way up the food chain.
What is biomagnification?
another word for producers.
What is an autotroph?
a community plus abiotic factors that affect it.
What is an ecosystem?
the absorption of carbon dioxide from the air into the ocean that creates carbonic acid.
a limiting factor that limits or slows a population's growth regardless of size.
What is a density-independent factor?
caused by clorofuorofcarbons in our atmosphere.
What is the thinning of the ozone?
the job a specific organism has in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?