Human Impact
The amount of carbon emitted and its environmental impact
What is
Carbon Footprint
It's goal is to increase manufacturing efficiency, transportation, and communication
What is industrial technology?
This type of succession occurs when a community forms in an area that has not been previously occupied.
What is primary succession?
What is Symbiosis?
A relationship between two or more organisms that are fighting for the same limited resources.
What is competition?
Oxygen, wood, water, sunlight, wind
What are renewable resources?
Some of the cons include it is expensive and nuclear energy creates radioactive waste.
What is alternative energy technology?
The first organisms to grow in a new environment.
What are pioneer species?
A type of symbiosis in which one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefits for example cows and snowy egrets.
What is commensalism?
What is secondary succession?
The normal warming effect when gases trap heat in the atmosphere
What is the greenhouse effect?
Some pros include improved communication, faster transportation and cheaper industries.
What is industrial technology?
A mature and stable community of plants and animals.
Reached towards the end of succession.
What is a climax community?
A type of symbiosis in which both organisms benefit, for example sharks and remora?
What is mutualism?
The pioneer species of primary succession.
What are lichens and mosses?
The total amount of variation of life on Earth
What is biodiversity
Its goal is to increase food productivity
What is agricultural technology?
The typical pioneer species for secondary succession
What are weeds and grasses?
In parasitism this is the organism that is harmed.
What is the host?
A balance between Earth's resources, human need, and the needs of other species.
What is sustainability?
Non-native species introduced to an ecosystem that negatively harms it.
What is invasive species?
Cons include excess nitrogen in the soil and machinery that runs on fossil fuels and creates pollution
What is agricultural technology?
An ecosystem that remains relatively constant with predictable changes.
What is a stable ecosystem?
A term meaning between two different species.
What is interspecific?
The next year in which Friday the 13th and halloween will fall on the same day.
What is never?