Vocabulary
This is a person or organism that provides resources for life, such as food, energy.
What is Host?
This is the variation of life within an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
These are changes that occur quickly in an ecosystem and affect organisms immediately.
What is short-term environmental impacts?
The arrow in a food web or food chain shows this.
What is energy being transferred?
This is a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
What is Parasitism?
These are the living or once living organisms in an ecosystem(animal, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc)
What is biotic factors?
These are changes that occur slowly over time and affects organisms over several generations.
What is a long-term environmental impact?
Floods, droughts and other natural disasters are examples of this.
What is short-term environmental impacts?
This is any substance used to fertilize the soil, especially a commercial or chemical manure.
What is Fertilizer?
These are non-living elements in an ecosystem (water, air, soil and temperature)
What is Abiotic?
This is when the pollutants come from a single location such as dumping chemicals into a river.
What is point source pollution?
Ice age and climate change are examples of this
What is long-term environmental impact?
This is changes by organisms to better survive changes in an ecosystem
What is adaptations?
This is the ability of an ecosystem to stay healthy & productive over time without human intervention.
What is sustainability?
This is when pollutants are introduced into the environment over a large, widespread area such as, agricultural runoff.
What is nonpoint source pollution?
This is a living thing that is introduced to a new environment and typically causes damage to their new ecosystem.
What is invasive species?
These organisms recycle other dead organisms into chemical nutrients used in soil, air, and water
What is a Decomposer?
This is a more sustainable ecosystem.
What is a Food Web?
This is an impact of overfishing.
What is an unbalanced ecosystem?
This excess crop fertilizer being carried by agricultural runoff into the river causes.
What is excess plant growth?