GLOSSARY

FUNDACIÓN UNIVERSITARIA TECNOLÓGICO COMFENALCO

FACULTAD DE INGENIERÍA
TECNOLOGÍA EN GESTIÓN AMBIENTAL INDUSTRIAL
CARTAGENA-BOLÍVAR
2017
GLOSSARY
CONCEPTS CONCEPTS IN DEFINITION
ENGLISH
ECOSISTEMA ECOSYSTEM Complex systems formed by biotic
factors and abiotic factors.
BIOMAS BIOMES Extensive communities of animal
plants and particular relief, similar
physicochemical parameters.

PISO FLOOR Dynamic natural body occupying

portions of the earth´s surface.
LUZ LIGHT Particles that vibrate called energy-
charget photons.
FACTORES BIOTIC FACTORS
BIOTICOS Can refer to the flora and fauna

FACTORES ABIOTIC FACTORS Are different components that

ABIOTICOA determine the physical space in
which the living beings live.

ZONA VIVA LIVING AREA Is a biogeographic region that is

delimited by climatic parameters
such as temperature and rainfall.

MEDIO ENVIRONMENT Is the set of biotic elements that

AMBIENTE integrate a certain space.
ECOLOGIA ECOLOGY Studies the ecosystems in relation
to their fauna and the environment
in which they are.
BIOTOPO BIOTOPE Geographic space with certain
environmental conditions (such as
soil, water, atmosphere) for the
development of certain animal and
plant species.

RED TROFICA TROPHIC That is applied to the natural

NETWORK phenomenon through which
different living beings connect to
each other from the cycle of life
that implies that some feed on
others in order to survive. The word
trophic comes from the Greek
language in which is trophos, which
means food.

CADENA FOOD CHAIN It is the current of energy and

ALIMENTICIA nutrients that is established
 between the different species of an
ecosystem in relation to its
nutrition.
NIVELES TROPHIC LEVELS The trophic level is called each of
TROFICOS the sets of species, or organisms,
of an ecosystem that coincide by
the position or shift they occupy in
the flow of energy and nutrients,
that is, those who occupy an
equivalent place In the food chain.
BIODIVERSIDAD BIODIVERSITY Biodiversity is the variety of life
forms that develop in a natural
environment. This variety of life
forms on earth involves all species
of plants, animals, microorganisms
and their genetic material.

FOTOSINTESIS PHOTOSYNTHESIS Chemical process that takes place

in plants with chlorophyll and that
allows, thanks to the energy of
light, to transform an inorganic
substrate into organic matter rich in
energy.
CICLOS Biochemical cycles The term biogeochemical cycle is
BIOQUIMICOS derived from the cyclical movement
of the elements that form biological
organisms (bio) and the geological
environment (geo) and intervene in
a chemical change. Sedimentary.
Also studied are the changes in
state produced from the matter that
contaminates them. Hydrological.

CICLO DEL AGUA WATER CYCLE The sun, which directs the water
cycle, heats the water in the
oceans, which evaporates into the
air like water vapor. Rising currents
of air carry the vapor to the upper
layers of the atmosphere, where
the lower temperature causes the
water vapor to condense and form
clouds.

SERVICIOS ECOSYSTEM Ecosystem services, or ecosystem

ECOSISTEMICOS SERVICES services, are natural ecosystem
resources or processes (goods and
services) that benefit humans. It
includes products such as clean
drinking water and processes such
as waste decomposition.
PROBLEMAS ENVIRONMENTAL Environmental problems affect
AMBIENTALES PROBLEMS virtually all elements of nature:
water, soil, vegetation cover,
animals and climate.

SABANAS BED SHEETS Vegetation composed of

herbaceous plants, usually tall
stem, and shrubs or isolated trees,
which occurs in areas of tropical
climate.
QUIMIOSINTESIS CHEMIOSYNTHESIS Synthesis of organic materials
produced by a chemical energy
source.
CELULAS CELLS is the anatomical and functional
unit of every living being that has
the function of self-preservation
and self-reproduction, so it is
considered the minimal expression
of life of every living being. Each
cell of your body was made from an
existing cell.
PRODUCTORES PRODUCERS
Are the autotrophic organisms,
such as plants, algae and
photosynthetic bacteria. These
organisms make their own organic
matter from inorganic matter:
carbon dioxide, water and mineral
salts. For this, it uses light energy.

CONSUMIDORES CONSUMERS They are heterotrophic organisms

that feed on living organic matter.
DESCOMPONED DECOMPOSERS They are heterotrophic organisms
ORES that feed on detritus and transform
them into inorganic compounds.
Fungi and many bacteria are
decomposers.
RIQUEZA WEALTH It can be expressed as quantity of
types (genetic varieties, species,
land use categories, etc.) as a unit
of space or as a ratio of types over
quantities.
ABUNDANCIA ABUNDANCE Expresses a relationship in the
percentage of a species in
particular to the total
DOMINANCIA DOMINANCE Makes reference to the species
that most prevails in the ecosystem
ENVÉS UNDERSIDE Bottom side of the blade, opposite
the beam
ESTOMAS STOMAS to the two occlusive cells that
are part of the epidermis of
the plant and that delimit
between them a pore called
ostiolo -the epidermis is
impermeable to water and
gases due to the layer of
cuticle that covers it-, that
allow to communicate the
gaseous environment of the
interior of the plant with that
of the exterior.

HERBARIO HERBAL Collection of dried and

classified plants used as a
material for the study of
botany.