CES (REVIEWER) 2.
Lipids Herbivores
- insulation & lubrication - plant eaters
HANDOUT #1
3. Proteins Carnivores
Environmental Science - muscle fibers - flesh eaters
- systematic study
4. Nucleic acids Omnivores
Environment - genetic material - eat both plants and animals
- natural world & build world
Cell Scavengers
Science - unit of life - eat dead
- empirical knowledge
Tissue Detritivores
Scientific Method - carry out - detritus
- examine problems
Organ Decomposers
Environmentalism - group of tissues - final recycling
- attitudes & policies
Organ System Ecology
Utilitarian conservation - work together - branch of biology
- practical uses for humans
Organism Competition
Preservation - individual entity - living organisms compete
- nature to exist
Species Intraspecific competition
Modern environmentalism - breed in nature - competition within species
- environmental pollution
Community Interspecific competition
Global environmentalism - living in a particular area - species compete with other
- environmental equity species
Ecosystem
Sustainability - biological Predation
- long-term ecological - feeds directly
Biosphere
Sustainable development - sum of all ecosystem Symbiosis
- meets the needs - intimate relationship
Energy Flow
HANDOUT #2 - constant flow of energy Mutualism
Matter - benefit from each other
Producers or Autotrophs
- mass and volume (occupies) - produce their own food Commensalism
space through photosynthesis - neither benefits nor is
Elements harmed
Consumers or Heterotrophs
- single type of atom - get their nourishment from Parasitism
• Macromolecules - larger other organisms - inflicting harm or damage
molecules Food Chain
1. Carbohydrates - linear sequence
- source of energy
HANDOUT #3 A. coral reefs
- extraordinary biological
Biogeochemical cycles HANDOUT #4
productivity
- biological, geologic &
Biomes
chemical interactions B. sea grass beds
- distinct terrestrial region
- support rich communities
• Hydrologic or Water cycle
Kind of Biome is very
- most familiar of all C. mangrove areas
dependent on temperature
biogeochemical cycles - salt-tolerant trees
& precipitation
Transpiration D. estuaries and salt
• Kinds of Biomes
- evaporation of water marshes
through the leaves 1. Tropical rainforest - rivers & open seas meet
- temperatures are warm to
Condensation & Freshwater Ecosystems
hot
Precipitation - cover few areas
- (rain) would occur 2. Savanna
• Kinds of Freshwater
- tropical grasslands
Percolation Ecosystems
- rainfall would penetrate the 3. Desert
1. Lakes
soil - temperatures extremes of
- have vertical layers
hot & cold
• Carbon cycle
2. Wetlands
- component of organic 4. Temperate grasslands
- saturated or submerged
molecules - midlatitude areas w/
enough rain 3. Rivers & Streams
• Nitrogen cycle
- changing environmental
- component of proteins & 5. Temperate forests
conditions
nucleic acid - can be deciduous
Ammonification 6. Boreal forests or Taiga
- ammonium & ammonia - cold temperatures HAND-OUT #5
Nitrification 7. Tundra Biodiversity
- bacteria into nitrates - northern latitudes - variety of living organisms
Assimilation Marine Environment Genetic diversity
- can use ammonia, - oceans cover ¾ of the - measure of the variety of
ammonium & nitrates Earth's versions
Denitrification • Kinds of Marine Species diversity
- nitrates to atmospheric Environments - number of different kinds of
nitrogen organisms
1. Open ocean
• Phosphorus cycle - has benthic & pelagic Ecological diversity
- primary participants in - richness and complexity of
energy reaction 2. Tidal shores
a biological
• Sulfur cycle Endemic species
- proteins in living organisms - found in a particular place
Native species
- existing organism in a
particular area
Invasive species
- introduced or foreign
species
Endangered species
- few number
Extinct species
- does not exist anymore
Keystone species
- plays a critical role
HIPPO
Habitat destruction
- organisms are being
displaced
Invasive species
- alien, non-native or
introduced species
Pollution
- anthropogenic activities
Population Growth
- increase of human
population
Overharvesting
- abuses to the environment
