CHAPTER 3 VOCABULARY DEFINITIONS

DEFINE THE CHAPTER VOCABULARY USING THE TEXTBOOK FOR YOUR DEFINITIONS. WE
WILL COMPLETE THESE AS WE COVER THE CHAPTER.
Section 1 Earth’s Spheres and Interactions:

1. Geosphere

2. Atmosphere

3. Troposphere

4. Stratosphere

5. Hydrosphere

6. Biosphere

7. Greenhouse Effect

Section 2 Major Ecosystem Components

8. Trophic Level
9. Producer

10. Photosynthesis

11. Consumer
 12. Primary consumer

13. Secondary Consumer

14. Herbivore

15. Tertiary consumer

16. Carnivore

17. Omnivore

18. Decomposer

19. Detritivore

20. Aerobic respiration

21. Anaerobic respiration

Section 3 Energy in an Ecosystem

22. Food chain

23. Food web

24. Gross Primary Productivity (GPP)

25. Net Primary Productivity (NPP)

Section 4 Matter in an Ecosystem

26. Nutrient cycle

27. Hydrologic cycle

28. Surface runoff

29. Groundwater

30. Aquifer

31. Carbon cycle

32. Nitrogen cycle

33. Phosphorus cycle