Download Study Notes for Chapter 1-2: Environmental Science

Study Notes for Chapter 1-2:
Environmental Science
Chapter 1 Section 1: Everything Is
Connected
1. A ______________
community is made up of
several different populations living
together.
2. A ___________
population is members of one
species in an area.
3. A scientific study of the egrets,
herons, marsh crabs, and cordgrass,
but not the water or rocks in a salt
mars is a study of the community
_________ level
of organization.
4. Mammals, fish, birds, and plants
that live in an environment are the
___________
part of an environment.
biotic
5. Rocks, temperature, and water
are the _________
abiotic part of the
environment.
five
6. The _________
levels of
organization in the environment are
organism, ___________,
population community,
____________,
ecosystem and biosphere.
Chapter 1 Section 2: Living Things
Need Energy
7. _________
Coyotes prey on prairie dogs. In
order for the prairie dog population to
many
survive, there needs to be _________
more prairie dogs than coyotes.
8. Grass is eaten by a prairie dog. The
prairie dog is eaten by a _________.
coyote
This is an example of a food
__________.
chain
9. Grass that gains energy from the
sun is an example of a ____________.
producer
carnivores and
10. Herbivores, _________,
omnivores are all ____________.
consumers
11. Arrows point in just one direction
food
in a ___________
web because they
show how energy goes to the animal
eating
that is ___________.
12. Living things that make _________
food
from sunlight are called _________.
producers
13. One food web arrow goes from a
prairie dog to a coyote, showing that
eats
the coyote _________
the prairie dog.
14. Organisms that can make their
own food from sunlight are called
_____________.
producers
Wolves kill old, injured, and
15. ________
diseased elk.
Chapter 2 Section 2: Ecological
Succession
Acids
16. _________
from lichens break rock
First
up in the __________
step of rock
changing to soil.
17. After one species disappears, the
other species in the ecosystem are
balance
thrown out of ___________.
18. __________
Biodiversity enables a community
to withstand changes.
19. In _________
primary succession rock is
slowly transformed into soil.
pioneer species.
20. Lichens are a __________
Primary succession begins in
21. __________
an area composed of bare rock.
22. _________
Secondary succession is when a
forest grows back after a forest fire.
23. ___________
Secondary succession occurs in
an area that has soil.
24. The oldest trees in a forest are a
called __________
species.
Climax
The End!!!