Ecology Basics
Species → Population → Community → Ecosystem → Biome → Biosphere
What is ecological organization from smallest to largest?
The process that turns water from liquid to vapor.
What is evaporation?
The type of organism that makes its own food using sunlight or chemicals.
What is an autotroph?
Florida’s main underground freshwater source
What is the Florida Aquifer?
Practices used to prevent pollution into water sources and prevent soil erosion.
What are Best Management Practices?
The nonliving part of an ecosystem
What is abiotic?
The process that returns water from the atmosphere to Earth’s surface.
What is precipitation.
The original source of energy for almost all ecosystems.
What is the sun?
The type of water is found in the Florida Aquifer
What is freshwater?
Planting crops directly into the residue from previous crops.
What is No-Till farming?
All the living and non-living organisms in a specific area
What is an ecosystem?
The main process that moves carbon from plants and animals back into the atmosphere.
What is respiration?
The type of consumer that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
The most common ecosystem in Florida.
What is Pine Flatwood?
What is Non-Point Source pollution?
Tree, animal, and bacteria are examples of this.
What is a biotic factor in an ecosystem?
The process where plants use sunlight to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
The percentage of energy that moves from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%?
Resources that can be replaced naturally in a short time (like water, sunlight, wind, trees)
What are renewable resources?
Planting larger and smaller size crops together to prevent soil erosion from wind and water runoff.
What is Strip Cropping?
The level of ecological organization that includes multiple ecosystems with similar climates and organisms?
What is a biome?
A body of water so rich in nutrients that it supports an overabundance of plant life leading to fish kills
What is eutrophic?
A group of organisms that breaks down dead matter and returns nutrients to the soil.
What are Decomposers?
The Florida Everglades is an example of this type of Ecosystem found in Florida.
What is a Wetland/Marsh?
Manages animal waste by holding manure in a leak proof containment structure.
What is Lagoon Wast Management?