Vocabulary
One of the species benefits while one of the species is harmed
What is parasitism?
Something that is at the top of the food web
What is a predator?
The process in the water cycle when water goes into the soil and becomes ground water
What is infiltration?
The global rise in temperature
What is global warming?
This causes a population to decrease- it can be either density dependent or density independent
What is a limiting factor?
Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor
What are greenhouse gases?
The study of population growth
What is Demographics?
This cycle is driven by bacteria
What is the nitrogen cycle?
This gas is often associated with the rise in global temperatures
What is carbon dioxide?
Two organisms that can reproduce successfully
What is a species?
Nonliving things such as rocks and water
What is an abiotic factor?
This limits or slows population growth regardless of size. An example of this is a natural disaster
What is density dependent?
Process in the nitrogen cycle where nitrogen is converted into ammonia.
What is Nitrogen fixation?
This is the effect that global warming is having on the oceans
What is sea level rising?
An organisms role in an ecosystem
What is a niche?
Any living thing
What is biotic?
This will happen if we exceed carrying capacity
What is an overshoot?
This cycle involves the respiration of oxygen
What is the carbon cycle?
This is a greenhouse gas that consists of 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen atoms. It is the evaporated water that cycles through the water cycle.
What is water vapor?
This is a relationship where two organisms interact with each other. This relationship could be mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.
What is a symbiotic relationship?
A group of populations of similar species
What is a community?
This type of growth is not done by populations. It is growth in a straight line.
What is linear growth?
The general name for the natural occurring cycles such as the water cycle, nitrogen cycle, and carbon cycle
What is a biogeochemical cycle?
This human activity emits a lot of greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide. They are also non-renewable resources.
What is burning fossil fuels?
These are surfaces such as cement that increase the amount of runoff and decrease the amount of groundwater.
What are impermeable surfaces?