Science Flashcards
Sustainability
The ability to maintain balance in a natural or artificial ecosystem.
Are natural and artificial ecosystems sustainable?
Natural ecosystems maintain themselves through a natural processes, but artificial ecosystems must be managed.
1st Trophic Level
Producer
2st Trophic Level
Primary Consumer
3rd Trophic Level
Secondary Consumer
4rd Trophic Level
Tertiary Consumer
What is a trophic level?
(aka. feeding level) Where an organism sits on the food chain.
Food Web
A food web is much more complex than a food chain. It shows the impact of introducing or eliminating a species in a web.
Predation
One individual feeds on another
Mutualism
Two individuals benefit one another
Parasitism
One individual lives on/in another, causing harm
Commensalism
One organism benefits, the host neither benefits nor is harmed
Intraspecies Competition
Between individuals of the same species
Interspecies Competition
Between individuals of different species
Human Abiotic Influences on both Terrestrial Ecosystems Aquatic Ecosytem
Light Availability = Clear cutting and forest fires increase sun’s exposure to sensitive planet/Erosion: More clouding in water
Nutrient Availability= Farming: More or less nutrients in soil/ Entrophilation
Temperature= Global warming impacting cold climate species/ Hot factory water expelled into airways
Human Abiotic Influences only on Terrestrial Ecosystems
Water Availability= Dams and draining swamps: Less water/ Irrigation: More water
Human Abiotic Infuences only on Aquatic Ecosystems
Acidity= Increasing because of factories Salinity= Salting roadways ends up in waterways
Photosynthesis
H2O+CO2+Energy from sun———} O2+C6H12O6
Cellular Respiration
O2+C6H12O6————} H2O+CO2+Energy from the sun
Lithosphere
Rocky shell of the planet that is above the volcanic mantle
Hydrosphere
All water above or bellow the earth
Atmosphere
Gas layer hundreds of kilometers above the earth’s surface that is 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 1% assorted.