Energy Transfer
The process by which autotrophs/producers use light energy to convert carbon dioxide and water into glucose and oxygen
What is photosynthesis?
The source of energy for all life on Earth
What is the sun or sunlight energy?
Process by which carbon moves among Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere
What is the carbon cycle?
The process in which fossil fuels are burned to produce energy for human use, releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
What is combustion?
The inputs and outputs of photosynthesis
What are carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water (inputs) and glucose and oxygen (outputs)?
The flow of energy in an ecosystem
What is sunlight -> producers -> consumers?
The role of photosynthesis in the carbon cycle
What is photosynthesis removes CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it in the biosphere?
Two human activities that cause global warming and climate change
What are burning fossil fuels and deforestation?
The process in which chemical energy in food (glucose) is broken down into a more usable form organisms can use (ATP)
What is cellular respiration?
What is in the autotrophs/producers, at the bottom of the food chain/food web/energy pyramid.
The role of cellular respiration in the carbon cycle
What is cellular respiration releases CO2 into the atmosphere?
The relationship between the carbon cycle and climate change
What is an increase in CO2 in the atmosphere is causing global warming and climate change due mostly to human activities (burning fossil fuels, deforestation)?
The inputs and outputs of cellular respiration
What are glucose and oxygen (inputs) and carbon dioxide, water, and ATP (outputs)?
The trend in energy flow through an ecosystem
What is energy decreases as it moves up a food chain, food web, or energy pyramid because energy is used by organisms and lost to the environment is heat?
The role of decomposers in the carbon cycle
What is decomposers break down organic matter, releasing CO2 back into the atmosphere or into the soil (geosphere) to be stored?
Human impact on the cycle of carbon between the atmosphere and biosphere
What is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is caused by burning fossil fuels, more people (biosphere) = greater demand for energy = burning more fossil fuels = more CO2 in the atmosphere and deforestation, fewer trees (biosphere) to absorb CO2 = more CO2 in the atmosphere?
Why is the role of photosynthesis critical for life on Earth?
In the process of photosynthesis, plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere and release O2 into the atmosphere. They also provide energy for consumers.
The movement of matter and energy in an ecosystem through the processes in the carbon cycle
What is plants remove CO2 from the atmosphere and convert carbon into glucose during photosynthesis, animals and plants release CO2 into the atmosphere during cellular respiration? Carbon atoms move from a plant to an animal when an animal eats the plant.
The role nitrogen plays in the carbon cycle
What is nitrogen in the soil (or water) is used by plants for growth, more nitrogen = more plant growth = more CO2 absorbed from the atmosphere into the biosphere?
Human impact on the cycle of carbon between the atmosphere and hydrosphere
What is an increase in the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is absorbed by Earth's oceans (hydrosphere), making the ocean more acidic (ocean acidification)?