After the 1992 Rio Summit, it became a buzzword for measuring the health of the planet.

And for referring

to number of species found there.
Biodiversity
All ecological space that shares the same species, climate, animals, and plants is called _____.
Biome
These are animals that feed both on plants and animals
Omnivores
These are organisms that rely on detritus, the decomposing particles of organic matter, for food.
Detritivores
These are selected single-lane food relationships in a series among organisms.
Food Chain
These are substances that increase in concentration in living organisms as they take in contaminated air,
or food because the substances are very slowly metabolized or excreted
Bioaccumulants
These autotrophs are bacteria that obtain energy by oxidizing inorganic compounds such as ammonia,
nitrates and sulfides, and they use this energy to synthesize carbohydrates.
Chemotrophs
These autotrophs are photosynthesizers such as algae and green plants that produce most of the organic
nutrients for the biosphere.
Photoautotrophs
A _____________ consists of all organisms that feed at a particular level in a food chain.
Trophic Level
Earthworms and some beetles, termites, and maggots are all terrestrial
Detritivores
The group interacting and Inter breeding organism of the same species.
Population
In this biome the aggravating factor is the water: the precipitations do not arrive at 15 inches per year,
whereas the annual average temperature is of 86 F.
Desert
It can be defined as any process that uses microorganisms, fungi, green plants or their enzymes to return
the natural environment altered by contaminants to its original condition.
Bioremediation
It is a description of where an organism is found
Habitat
It is a process by which radiative energy leaving a planetary surface is absorbed by some atmospheric
gases.
Greenhouse Effect
It is a process that involves predicting and evaluating the likely impacts of a project on the environment
during construction, commissioning, operation and abandonment
EIA= Environmental Impact Assessment
It is defined as occurring when uptake from the water is greater than excretion
Bioconcentration

It is defined as the rate of biomass accumulation by heterotrophs

Secondary productivity
It is defined as the total amount of energy fixed per unit of time minus the amount of energy expended by
the metabolic activities of the photosynthetic organisms in the community.
Net primary productivity
It is the national agenda for sustainable development. It outlines the integrating strategies for the
country's overall sustainable development and identifies the intervention areas from the national to the
regional level.
PA 21
It is the net weight of all organisms living in an ecosystem, which, increases as a result of its net
production.
Biomass
It is the study of how organisms live and how they interact with their environment.
Ecology
It is the total amount of organic matter produced by all autotrophs in an ecosystem, including that used by
themselves.
Gross primary productivity
It is the ultimate source of energy for every ecosystem.
Sun
It is used to describe any close relationship between two species
Symbiosis
It is used to describe the relationship if both species benefit from each other.
Mutualism
It measures how much land and water area a human population requires to produce the resource it
consumes and to absorb its wastes, using prevailing technology and also called "appropriated carrying
capacity".
Ecological Footprint
It occurs when substances are released into the environment in harmful amounts as a direct result of
human activity.
Pollution
It occurs within a trophic level, and is the increase in concentration of a substance in certain tissues of
organisms' bodies due to absorption from food and the environment
Bioaccumulation
It refers to an organism or biological response that reveals the presence of the pollutants by the
occurrence of typical symptoms or measurable responses, and is therefore more qualitative.
Bioindicator
It refers to meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to
meet their own needs.
Sustainable Development
It refers to the process whereby certain substances such as pesticides or heavy metals move up the food
chain
Biomagnification
It refers to the relationship usually produce an arms race of chemical and mechanical attack and defence
mechanism.
Antagonistic co-evolution

It refers to the release large amounts of phosphate and nitrate or organic matter into the water resulting
in a lowering of oxygen levels and change in the fauna of the water.
Eutrophication
It the study of the ecology of a single species.
Autecology
It the study of the ecology of whole communities of organisms.
Synecology
It was considered as a subset of the general evolutionary relationship between species in communities
Co-evolution
Lakes that are nutrient poor are describes as ______.
Oligotrophic
The living organisms are the ____________ components of an ecosystem.
Biotic
The Philippines Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) System was formally established in 1978 by virtue
of ________________.
PD 1586
Primary consumers belongs to
Second trophic level
Primary producers belong to
First trophic level
These refer to the complicated feeding relationships that exist among organisms in natural ecosystem.
Food Web
Secondary consumers belong to Third trophic level
The term used to describe the amount of organic matter an ecosystem produces using solar energy within
a given area during a given period of time.
Primary Productivity
They are animals that graze directly on plants or algae.
Herbivores
They are those able to synthesize food for themselves
Producers
They are unable to produce food, are constantly looking for source of organic nutrients from elsewhere.
Heterotrophs
They feed on other animals.
Carnivores
They perform a very valuable service by releasing inorganic substances that are taken up by plants once
more.
Decomposers
They produce their own organic nutrients for themselves and other members of the community.
Autotrophs
They rely on producers directly or indirectly for a living.

Consumer
The thin film on the surface of the earth in which all life exists is called __________.
Biosphere
This area, composed of a community and the physical environment it occupies is called:
Ecosystem
This is composed of different populations living interacting as competitors, predator and prey, or
symbiotically.
Community
Which is not an abiotic component of the environment?
a) Gases
b) Bacteria
c) Light
d) Soil
Bacteria
Which of these does not belong to the greenhouse gases
a) Water vapor
b) Carbon dioxide
c) Methane
d) Oxygen
Oxygen
Which of these sources of water is sediment rich
a) Drainage water
b) River water
c) Saltwater
d) Rainfall
Riverwater
With their multiple variety of vegetal species and animals, these are the most productive biomes of the
Earth and those of greatest biodiversity.
Tropical Rainforests