Vocabulary
Key Concepts
Crash Course
Reading B1-B2
100

What is a population? 

What is the same type of organisms living in the same area?

100

A system can be _______ even when things are being added or removed?

What is stable?

100

Ecologist refer to plants as...

What is a primary source?

100

Healthy ecosystems provide..

What is water filtering? 

200

What is stability?

What is something that says the same over a long period of time?

200

If the amount added or removed is not ______, then the system will change.

What is equal?
200

What is the structure that organisms organize themselves into?

What is the trophic structure.

200

What is earth's largest ecosystem?

What is an ocean?

300

What is a sample?

What is a small part of a whole?

300

Within a population _____________ are always born or dying.

What is an organism?

300

Herbivores are referred to as...

What are primary consumers?

300

What is a word ecologists use to describe how much variety there is in an ecosystem?

What is biodiversity?

400

What is energy?

What is the ability to work and move?

400

If there are more _________ than ____________ in a given time, then the size the population will increase.

 What are births and deaths?

400

What organisms eat all of the dead plants and animals that other organisms in an ecosystem won't eat?

What is a detritivore?

400

When do forests filter water?

What happens when it rains?

500

What is an ecosystem?

What are living and non-living things interacting in a particular area?

500

If a system ________ births than _________ , then the size of a population can decrease.

What is fewer and deaths?

500

How much percent of energy does an organism hold on to? 

What is 10%?

500

What makes biodiversity important?

What makes the system stronger and less likely to break down?