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An ecological relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed
What is parasitism?
The name of the diagram that displays the amount of energy available at each trophic level
What is an energy pyramid?
An organism that eats only plant matter
What is an herbivore?
This human impact is caused by removing forests and burning fossil fuels, increasing CO2 in the atmosphere
What is climate change or global warming?
Like the wolves of Yellowstone, an ecological disturbance that has impacts throughout the community
What is a trophic cascade?
The type of relationship between flowering plants and their pollenators
What is mutualism?
The trophic level with the most biomass in all ecosystems
What are producers?
The category of organisms that break down dead and decaying organic material, recycling the nutrients
What are decomposers?
Invented in the early 1900s, this agricultural innovation increased Earth's carrying capacity for humans.
What is the invention of nitrogen-containing fertilizers (taking atmospheric nitrogen and putting it into a form plants can use.)
A fully biodiverse ecosystem, resulting from a long process of ecological change starting from rock or soil
What is a climax community?
The ecological relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
What is commensalism?
These organisms transform energy from the sun, capturing it in the organic molecule glucose
What are autotrophs?
A diagram that depicts complex feeding relationships in an ecosystem with several representatives from each trophic level
What is a food web?
The term for the variety of living things on earth
What is biodiversity?
The process by which ecosystems become established, starting from barren rock
What is primary succession?
All of the biotic and abiotic factors in a region make up this
What is an ecosystem?
The ultimate source of energy for almost all living things on Earth
What is the Sun?
All the physical, chemical, and biological factors that a species needs to survive
What is an ecological niche?
Two processes in which living organisms exchange carbon dioxide with the environment?
What are photosynthesis and cellular respiration?
limiting factors that are affected by the number of individuals in a given area
What are density-dependent limiting factors?
The type of relationship between a grizzly bear and the salmon it catches and eats.
What is predation? (or predator-prey)
Where the other 90% of energy goes that does not pass from one trophic level to the next
What is heat rejected to the environment?
The full name or organisms that gather energy from the sun and transform it into chemical energy in glucose
What is photoautotroph?
Elimination of this kind of species will have a great impact on an ecosystem
What is a keystone species?
The term for the maximum population for a species that an ecosystem can support
What is carrying capacity?