Ecology

Ecosystem

Ecosystem services

Biosphere

Biotic

Hydrosphere

Water

Marine life

Relating to result in living things

Abiotic

Atmosphere

Ozone layer

Air

Lithosphere

Earths crust

Mountains

Soil

Water

Physical rather than biological

The contribution of an ecosystem to a humans well being

Ecosystem engineer

Habitat

commensalism

Earth habitat

Jungle

Hole/ Burrow

Marine habitat

Choral

Sunken ships

Air habitat

Nests

A relationship between two organisms in which one benefits and the other neither benefits nor derives.

An organism that directly or indirectly modulate the availability of resources

A group of living

Habitat

Marine

Fish

Whales

Sharks

A place involving water

Aquatic

Fish

Sea weed

Choral

Clams

A group of organisms living in the same place

Biome

Habitat

Desert

Desertification

When an area drys up sometimes resulting in cracking

Aquatic

Somewhere in water

Grassland

Long flat grassy land

Forest

A place with lots of trees

Tundra

A flat dry place with little life

A place where an organism makes home

Ecological footprint

Symbiosis

Deforestation

WHen we cut down trees to make room for other things

Overexploitation

Biocontrol

Using an organism to prevent damage from other organisms

Bioremediation

The use of living organisms to remove contaminants

Bioaugmentation

The intro of microorganisms into a contaminated environment

Restoration ecology

Aims to recreate ecosystems that have been destroyed

Energy

Connectivity

Links between things

A substance that powers things

Biodiversity

Food chains/ food web

Bioaccumulation vs Biomagnification

Marine

Orcas

Sharks

Marlin

Tuna

Salmon

Makrel

Bass

smaller fish

Plankton

shrimp

Pike

Lampfish

Sword fish

Dolphins

Tropic efficiency

Tropic level

Predation

Land

Lions

Tiggers

Coyotes

Bobcats

Hyenas

Gophers

Rabbits

Frogs

Mice

Insects

Small birds

Fox

Zebras

Bison

Wolves

Dominant species

The position of an organism in the food chain

The efficiency in which mass is transferred from one predator to the next.

Consumers

Omnivore

Foxes

Bears

Badgers

Pigs

An animal that will eat anything

what

Herbivores

Zebras

Deer

Hippos

Rhinos

An animal that only eats plants

#2 level consumer

Carnivore

Hyena

Chettah

Leopard

Wolf

Lion

A animal that only eats meat

Population

Humans

Succession

When something is passed down like the throne in a kingdom

Keystone species

A dominant or a relied upon species

Cellular respiration

A process that breaks down glucose in the body

Sustainable

WHen something can last a fairly long time

Animals

A living organism that can react to the world

insects

Small animal with six legs and sometimes a pair of wings

Exponential growth

The growth of the world

Niche

When the population is small

Invasive speices

Habitat loss

When a species losses their home/ where they were living

Extinction

Extirpated

when a species leaves one area for good but there still alive

Endangered

When a species is at risk of extinction

Limiting factors

Parasitism

when an organism tends to live off of another organism

Alien species

Terrestrial

A species from another planet