Vocabulary
All living and non-living things interacting in an area
What is an ecosystem?
Organisms that eat only plants
What are herbivores?
The growth or building of towns and cities.
What is urban development?
What occupies the base level (largest level) of the ecosystem trophic levels?
What are plants?
What kind of service requires vegetation be planted along river banks and lake banks
What are Riparian Buffer Zones
A group of the same species living in the same area at the same time
What is a population?
Organisms that eat both plants and animals
What are omnivores?
Harmful substances released into the air, water, or land that damage ecosystems
What is pollution?
In the food chain: grass--> rabbit--> snake--> Hawk, the sencondary consumer is
What is the snake?
The name for repairing damaged wetlands
What is wetland restoration?
The variety of living organisms in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
Meat eating organisms
What are carnivores?
The effect that human activities have on the environment and living organisms
What is human impact?
In a pond where algae levels are extremely high, what happens to the fish population?
Systems that clean water before it enters the natural ecosystem
What are water treatment systems
Limits such as cost, space or social concerns
What are constraints?
Name one type of constraint on ecosystem services
What are economic, social, or scientific
Variety of life in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
Non-native organisms introduced to an ecosystem that spread aggressively
What are invasive species?
What type of constraint considers cost and maintenance of materials
What is economic constraint?
Data collected through observations or measurements
What is Empirical Evidence?
What is overgrowth of algae or decrease in fish population?
Name one ecosystem service
What are Riparian Buffer Zones, Water Treatment Systems, or Wetland Restoration?
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or organism
What is a habitat?
What type of constraint considers community support or opposition
What is social constraint?