Ecosystem Basic
This is a community of living organisms interacting with their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This organism makes its own food through photosynthesis.
What is a producer?
The number of individuals per unit area.
What is population density?
The process of cutting down and clearing forests.
What is deforestation?
Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment.
What is conservation?
These are the living parts of an ecosystem, like plants and animals.
What are biotic factors?
This organism eats producers.
What is a primary consumer or herbivore?
Factors that limit population growth, such as food, water, and space.
What are limiting factors?
The release of harmful substances into the environment.
What is pollution?
A species at risk of extinction.
What is an endangered species?
These are the non-living parts of an ecosystem, like sunlight and water.
What are abiotic factors?
A diagram that shows the flow of energy from one organism to another.
What is a food chain?
The maximum number of individuals an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
The increase in Earth's average temperature due to greenhouse gases.
What is global warming (or climate change)?
An area set aside for the protection of wildlife and habitats.
What is a national park (or nature reserve)?
The process where plants convert sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
This organism eats other consumers.
What is a secondary consumer or carnivore/omnivore?
The study of how populations change over time.
What is population dynamics?
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
Using resources in a way that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What is sustainable development?
The place where an organism lives and provides the resources it needs.
What is a habitat?
A complex network of interconnected food chains.
What is a food web?
What is exponential growth?
The introduction of non-native species to an ecosystem, often with negative consequences.
What is an invasive species?
What is ecological restoration?