Chapters 20.1+20.2 Flashcards
Gasses in the Earth that trap heat.
Greenhouse Gas
This states that each trophic level can only give 10% to the next level.
10% Rule
A community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.
Ecosystem
A large-scale community of organisms, primarily defined, on land, by the dominant plant types that exist in geographic regions of the planet with similar climatic conditions. (tropical rainforests, savannas, deserts, grasslands, temperate forests, and tundras)
Biome
The state of an ecosystem where despite changes in specie numbers, biodiversity remains somewhat constant.
Equilibrium
The ability is an ecosystem to remain at equilibrium in spite of disturbances.
Resistance
The speed at which an ecosystem recovers equilibrium after being disturbed.
Resilience
A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another. (producers, primary consumers, higher-level consumers, and decomposers)
Food Chain
A concept that accounts for the multiple trophic feeding interactions between each species and the many species it may feed on, or that feed on it.
Food Web
An animal’s position in a food chain or web. (energy level)
Trophic Level
The base or foundation of a food web/chain that are photoautotrophs
Producers
The organisms that eat producers.
Primary Consumer
The organisms that eat primary consumers, usually carnivores.
Secondary Consumer
The organisms that eat secondary consumers, carnivores that eat carnivores.
Tertiary Consumer
The organisms that eat tertiary consumers, top of the food chain.
Quaternary Consumer
Organisms capable of synthesizing their own food, harnesses light or chemical energy.
Autotroph
The rate at which photosynthetic producers incorporate energy from the Sun
Gross Primary Productivity
The energy that remains in the producers after accounting for its respiration and heat loss.
Net Primary Productivity
The increasing concentration of persistent, toxic substances in organisms at each successive trophic level. These are substances that are stored in the fat.
Biomagnification
The process of recycling inorganic matter between living organisms and their nonliving environment
Biogeochemical Cycle
The six most common elements of life. (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur)
CHNOPS
The area of Earth where water movement and storage occurs.
Hydrosphere
The constant movement of water on Earth.
Water Cycle
The process of a liquid turning into a gas.
Evaporation
