Lesson 1: Ecosystem Introduction and Fundamentals Flashcards
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it is a system that consists
interacting organisms and
abiotic pools linking together
ECOSYSTEM
living things / organisms or life forms within an ecosystem and they are actually considered as the consumers.
Biotic Components/Factors
non-living things (sunlight, air, minerals, soil etc. The living things need this factors to survive.
Abiotic Components/Factors
helps to trap heat in our atmosphere. too much of this will result to higher temperature and global warming or climate change.
Carbon Dioxide
where life forms exists on earth.
Biosphere
changing the landscape in the biosphere
Human altering
The 3 layers of the Earth.
Crust
Mantle
Core
2 forms of core
Inner core
Outer core
surface of the Earth
Crust
basically it’s magma
Mantle
“hydro” which means water
hydrosphere
when the liquid turns into gases by evaporation
water cycle
making higher elevations colder, windier, and wetter than lower elevations
Altitude
the 3 biotic components
- producers
- consumers
- decomposers
like plants, they produced foods
producers
organisms that get their energy by eating other organisms
consumers
animals who eat dead organism or animals
decomposers
4 abiotic components
- air
- sunlight
- soil
- water
the rate of ecosystem processes are constantly changing due to fluctuations in environment and activities of organsms on time scales ranging from microseconds to millions of years.
Ecosystem Dynamics
are microorganism that produced methane gas.
Methanogens
largely closed systems dominated by internal recycling of elements
Ecosystem in Equilibrium
a state of rest or balance due to the equal action of opposing forces.
Equilibrium
if the balance between inputs and outputs to the system shows no trend with time
Steady State Equilibrium
addresses the interactions between organisms and their environment as an integrated system.
Ecosystem Ecology
