Levels of Ecological Organization
The first level of ecological organization that would consist of one deer.
Organism
The step in the water cycle that shows the evaporation of water from plants.
What is transpiration
Population grows without limit
Exponential Growth
Aspects of the environment that limit the size a population can reach.
Limiting Factors
These are the two types of reproduction.
Sexual and Asexual
The zone of life on earth, encompassing all of Earth's ecosystems.
Biosphere
The biggest human impact on the carbon cycle.
Combustion
This is the negative impact of fertilizer.
The use of fertilizers adds WAY too much
nitrogen to the soil, creating an imbalance.
When referring to the non living factors in an environment we call them
Abiotic
This is a change in an organism's environment.
Stimulus
A diagram that shows relatedness of organisms.
Cladogram
This is the effect that deforestation has on the water cycle.
Deforestation reduces transpiration, thus it reduces the amount of water going back into the atmosphere.
The theoretical maximum population that a given environment could support.
Carrying Capacity
Factors that can be triggered by an increase in population size and have a bigger impact on more dense populations
Density Dependent
All of the chemical reactions of each cell in an organism that provide energy for life’s processes and create key molecules.
What is Metabolism
All of the deer, birds, plants, insects, squirrels, etc. in a field.
Community
The process of bacteria taking nitrogen out of the atmosphere and changing it into something we can use on the ground.
Nitrogen Fixation
This is how animal respiration effects the carbon cycle.
Animals exhale carbon dioxide when they breathe and inhale oxygen.
Nearly all species in an ecosystem are affected equally by _______________ limiting factors.
Density Independent
Individual organisms _____ evolve
Cannot
Community PLUS all of the abiotic factors in the environment.
Ecosystem
What is the missing stage?
Nitrogen fixation, consumption, ammonification, nitrification, and denitrification.
Decomposition
This is what's created after millions of years of heat and compression on organic matter.
Fossil Fuels ( Coal and Petroleum)
Disease is a ____________________ factor.
Density Dependent
What must something be composed of to be considered living?
One or more cells & DNA or RNA