Ecology

rocks,minerals,earths crust

Air,gases

water

plants,animals,living things

Are living or once were

Non-living things that influence an ecosystem

organism that only eats plants

organism that eats mostly/only meat

organism that eats both plants and animals

organisms that eat deccaying organic material

organism that breaks down decaying material into nutrients

organisms that produce their own food

feeding relationships between organisms

over lapping and interconnecting food chains

first to consume on the trophic level

second to consume on the trophic level

third to consume on a trophic level

the process in which plant produce oxygen and glucose

the process in which animals produce carbon dioxide and water

Newly exposed or newly exposed rock is colonized by living things for the first time

An area that has been disrupted (flood,eruption) but recolinizes after

The amount of oxygen available to aquatic organisms

The amount of oxygen needed by decomposers in an aquatic ecosystem to break up waste

Inorganic enrichment of natural waters, leading to an increased production of algae and macrophytes

Healthy lake

typically an apex predator that regulates the population of lower trophic levels, therefore keeping ecosystems in equilibrium. Part of the food web would die off without them

the number of different types of organisms (species) within an ecosystem

The carrying capacity is the maximum population size (number of individuals of the same species) that an ecosystem can maintain over a period of time

when the forward and reverse processes occur at the same rate, resulting in no observable change in the system.

anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.

nature's way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again

a biogeochemical process through which nitrogen is converted into many forms, consecutively passing from the atmosphere to the soil to organism and back into the atmosphere

producer

consumer