The Ecosystem

Summary
• Population is a group of organism of the same species
living in a certain place

• Biodiversity refers to the variety of life in an area

• Communities with many different species (a high of

diversity)will able to withstand environmental changes
better than communities with only a few species (a low
index of diversity).
The ECOSYSTEM
• Population sizes vary among organism. They change
with the number of births and when they move
into an ecosystem. They also change when
members die or move out of an ecosystem.

• The carrying capacity is affected by changes

environment.
• The principal causes of deforestation are illegal
logging,kaingin,farming,forest fires, and conversion
of agricultural lands to housing projects,and
typhoon.
• The effects of deforestation include soil
erosion,floods,and depletion of wildlife resources.
• The major cause if wildlife depletion is the loss of
habitat.

• Coral reef destruction caused by dynamite fishing

and muro-ami,while mangrove destruction is
caused by over harvesting and conversion of the
area into other uses.
• In eutrophication,nutrients are washed away from
the land to enrich bodies of water. It causes
excessive growth of aquatic plants and algae and
results in algal bloom,which eventually die and
decompose. The process depletes the oxygen
dissolved in water, causing fish and other aquatic
organisms to die.
• Acid rain is a result of air pollution mostly from
factories and motor vehicles.

• Sustainable development means that a society

should live under the carrying capacity of the
environment.
GLOSSARY
Species
• A group of organisms that have certain
characteristics in common and are able to
interbreed
Biodiversity
• Refers to the variety of life in an area.
Population
• The total number of organisms of the same species
inhabiting a place at the same time.
Population density
• The number of individuals in an area
Limiting factor
• Environmental conditions that keep the
populationspopulations from over increasing in size
and thus help balance ecosystems.
Carrying capacity
• Number of organisms of one species that an
environment can support
Endangered species
• A species in which the number of individuals falls
so low that extinction is possible.
Threatened species
• Species that have rapidly decreasing numbes of
individuals
Deforestation
• Removing or clearing of a forest to include the
cutting of all trees, mostly for agricultural or urban
use
PCB
• (Poly chlorinated biphenyl)toxic wastes produced in
the making of paints, inks and electrical insulators
Acid rain
• Broad term referring to a mixture of wet and dry
deposition (deposited material) from the
atmosphere containing higher than normal
amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids
The ecosystem
• Yory Olaya Maraver