Nutrient Cycles
What is the movement of CO2 through the atmosphere, living organisms, the ocean and land.
What is the carbon cycle
What organism makes it’s own food?
What are the producers?
The unit commonly used to measure energy in food
What is a kilocalorie?
What organelle is the location for the most cellular respiration?
What are mitochondrion?
The organelle where photosythesis occurs
What is the chloroplast?
Organisms that return nutrients to the soil by breaking down dead matter?
What are decomposers (Detritivores)?
A food web that is made up of many interconnected….
What are food chains?
Approximately what percentage of energy is transferred from one trophic level to another?
What is 10%
The first stage of cellular respiration is called
What is glycolysis?
The pigment that captures light energy
What is chlorophyll?
Termites break down dung, plant and wood material and return what nutrients to the soil?
What is nitrogen and phosphorus?
An animal that eats both plants and animals?
What is a an omnivore?
A sea otter weighing 23 kg requires 250kcal/kg/day. How many total Kcals does it need?
What is 5,750 kcal/day?
The balanced equation for cellular respiration begins with glucose and this gas
What is O2 (oxygen)?
The gas taken in by plants during photosyntheis
What is CO2
Process moves carbon from organisms back into the atmosphere through a metabolic process
What is cellular respiration
A species whose impact on the ecosystem is much greater that expected from it’s abundance?
What is a keystone species?
A deer consumes 12,000 kcals of plants per day. Of the absorbed energy (35%—7800 calories) 70% is used for cellular respiration
What is 5460 kcals?
Where does glycolysis generally occur
Where is the cytoplasm?
Plants use both photosynthesis and cellular respiration, true or false?
What is true?
The process by which nitrogen gas is converted into a usable form by bacteria?
What is nitrogen fixation?
The type of regulation in which predators control the population.
What is top-down regulation?
For the above deer, if 2340 kcal are stored as biomass, this number of kcals is available to the next trophic level (a wolf)
What is 234 kcals?
The chemical formula for glucose?
What is C6 H12 O6?
The reactants in photosynthesis
What are Carbon (CO2) and Water (H20)