Types of organisms
Breaks down wastes and dead organisms.
What is a decomposer?
The biological community that has organisms interact with each other.
What is a ecosystem?
More of a chemical increases within the food chain. What's this process called?
What's Biomagnification?
Variety of life in a ecosystem.
What is Biodiversity?
System of changing crops grown to keep the nutrients in the soil.
What is crop rotation?
An organism that eats other organisms for energy.
What is a consumer?
The relation of organisms to each other and their surroundings. What branch of biology is this?
What is Ecology?
When a chemical increases in one organism over time.
What's bioaccumulation?
Living organisms of an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
Resources that we can't get back faster than we use them.
What's a nonrenewable resource?
An organism that makes it's own food.
What is a producer?
All life on Earth in every part of it.
What is the Biosphere?
Each step in the food chain or food web.
What's a trophic level?
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What are abiotic factors?
A resource we can get back as much as we currently use it.
What is a renewable resource?
A species that takes over a habitat and is not native.
What is an invasive species?
Farming of seafood under controlled conditions.
What is aquaculture?
Readily able to be decomposed into something harmless by microorganisms.
What's biodegradable?
The impact a person has on the environment, usually expressed as land needed to sustain their use of natural resources.
What's an ecological footprint?
A ecological succession that has no biotic community without soil.
What's primary succession?
What are keystone species?
Damage done to a habitat that causes losses of resources needed to survive.
What is habitat degradation?
Breakup of a habitat into smaller parts.
What is habitat fragmentation?
The loss of the soil's ability to support growth.
What is soil degradation?
A ecological succession that happens after a major wildfire, flood or storm.
What is a secondary succession?