Vocabulary
All of the populations living in one area.
Community
The organism that drives the nitrogen cycle.
Bacteria
The study of population growth.
Demographics
Zones of water with no oxygen.
Hypoxic zones
The pesticide that was banned in most countries.
DDT
All of the abiotic and biotic factors in one area
Ecosystem
The process where ammonia is changed into nitrates.
Nitrification
The type of growth done by short-lived organisms.
Too much fertilizer -> algae growth -> algae use up nutrients -> algae dies -> bacteria decompose algae while using up oxygen -> no dissolved oxygen which causes fish to die.
What is this process called?
Eutrophication
The increase in the concentration of a pollutant as you go up the food chain.
Biomagnification
Relationship between two species where one benefits while the other one is harmed
Parasitism
The process where plants take CO2 from the atmosphere and then converts it into oxygen
Photosynthesis
The maximum amount of organisms a habitat can hold indefinitely.
Carrying capacity
Caused by demand for wood product, need for space, farmland, housing, and roads.
Deforestation
As CO2 levels rise, what else rises.
Temperature
Another name for rain, snow, sleet, and hail
Precipitation
The process where plants take nitrates from the ground.
Assimilation
The factor that limits or slows populations regardless of size.
Density Independent
The type of chemical that causes thinning of the ozone layer.
CFCs
The three phases in logistic growth.
Lag phase, exponential phase, stabilizing phase.
The type of organism found on the fourth trophic level.
Tertiary Consumer
Soy beans
The number of children to women in a population.
TFR/Total Fertility Rate
Types of greenhouse gas.
Methane, Water Vapor, Carbon Dioxide.
Since the Industrial Revolution