Cards (9)

  • Glucose
    • Made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms
    • A carbohydrate
    • Can be used to make other carbohydrates like cellulose and starch
    • Starch is a storage molecule that can be converted back to glucose
  • Cellular respiration
    Glucose molecules broken down to make energy available for chemical reactions in cells
  • Bioaccumulation
    Toxic substances become more concentrated as they are passed up a food chain
  • Eutrophication
    Ecosystem's response to addition of artificial or natural substances to an aquatic system
  • Habitat
    The place an organism lives
  • Population
    A group of organisms of the same species living and breeding together in one habitat
  • Community
    A collection of different populations coexisting in a habitat
  • Species distribution
    The way a species is organised over a certain area - uniform, random, or clumped
  • Species abundance
    The number of organisms of one type over a certain area, higher abundance usually indicates ecological success