Posts Tagged ‘populations’

a symbiotic relationship in both organisms benefit is………………

two or more individuals or populations trying to use te same limited resource is ……………..

Matching:
(words:decomposers, community, food web, food chain, sun, producers, pyramid of energy)
18. energy source
19.water lilies to snails to ducks
20.represedted by a drawing of the lake and its inhabitants
21. food chains with many interconnecting link
22.carnivore populations possess less energy that producer population
23. return matter to the community
24. traps energy from the sun

Fill in the blank with ecology vocab words such as omnivores, community, producers, pupulation, haitat trophic level, food chain, food web, herbavore, deccomposer, carnivore, environment, niche,etc

1. ____ eat both producers and consumers.
2.____is a group of populations that live togeather and depend upon each other for food.
3. in a community, the green plants are the_____
4. A group of organisms of the same species in a ______
5. A ____is the place where an organism lives.
6. the total amout of biological matter in a goup of organisms is its_____
7. a ____ represents the transfer of energy and nutrients from one organism to another.
8 the role of anorganism in its environmet(how it goes about obtaining energy) is its____.
9.____feed only on green plants.
10._____recycle dead organisms.
11.____eat herbavores.
12.The _____is the living and nonliving things that surrounds an organism.

1. ____ eat both producers and consumers.
2.____is a group of populations that live togeather and depend upon each other for food.
3. in a community, the green plants are the_____
4. A group of organisms of the same species in a ______
5. A ____is the place where an organism lives.
6. the total amout of biological matter in a goup of organisms is its_____
7. a ____ represents the transfer of energy and nutrients from one organism to another.
8 the role of anorganism in its environmet(how it goes about obtaining energy) is its____.
9.____feed only on green plants.
10._____recycle dead organisms.
11.____eat herbavores.
12.The _____is the living and nonliving things that surrounds an organism.

We all know that Global Warming is damaging the environment and that humans contribute to it. But, as populations are rising, how can we maintain the large amounts of humans without destroying the environment?

If we had a sustainable and viable relationship with our ecology instead of a superficial unsustainable one reliant upon non-renewable resources, wouldn’t our population be better moderated because our resources would inevitably be distributed in a manner that wouldn’t enable population increases that are reliant upon resources which are both limited and unsustainable?

Any time an excess of resources is introduced to any population in nature it causes a population increase, which explains why the human population exponentially grew after the Agricultural Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution allowed for further population increases due to practices such as mechanized agriculture. The adaptation of ‘developing’ countries’ economies into economies that are internationally competitive influenced those populations to increase as well because agriculture changed from self-sustainment to surplus-oriented mono-crops; having more children became an economic benefit to them because children are a source of labor to them.

In arguing this I am advocating more indigenous lifestyles in which people have a more immanent and engaged relationship with their immediate local ecologies which, I believe, would create more favorable political and economic relationships worldwide. I think it would imply self-sufficiency and having immanent, viable, and engaged relationships with the people immediately around us instead of being so globally interdependent upon each other for trade, labor, and resources.

I think our ecology is essentially our economy, and that our political actions are directed by our economies which are determined by our ecologies. If you dislike the political climate, shouldn’t you consider that the source of political power lies in how a society relates to its actual environment? Is this a valid way to understand our ecological, economic, and political paradigms?