Module F Flashcards
Our period in the Earth’s history
Anthropocene
Unit of Biosphere
Ecosystem
Composed of biotic or living community and its associated abiotic or non-living environment.
Ecosystem
What does Biotic mean?
Living community/environment
What does abiotic mean?
Non-living community/environment
What are the key components of an ecosystem?
- Producers
- Consumers
- Decomposers
- Abiotic Factors
What organisms can produce their own food, such as plants?
Producers
What organisms rely on other organisms for food, like animals?
Consumers
What organisms break down dead matter, such as bacteria and fungi?
Decomposers
These are non-living components like sunlight, water, air, and soil, what is it called?
Abiotic factors
This ensures the continuous functioning of ecosystems
Energy flow and Nutrient cycling
This is a sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism
Food chain
What is the practice of raising animals and growing crops to produce food and other materials for people?
Agriculture
What is the increase in the proportion of people living in towns and cities?
Urbanization
What is used to describe a country, economy, area, etc. that has many businesses and factories involved in producing goods?
Industrialization
What do you call the activity of leisure?
Recreation
This refers to the variety of life on Earth- plants, animals, microorganisms
Biodiversity
This includes the variability of these organisms, genetic differences among the organisms, and the communities in which these organisms occur.
Biodiversity
