Biology
Study of the interactions between living and nonliving things
What is Ecology
Give an example of mutualism
What is many possible answers, the blind shrimp and the Goby or the clownfish and the anemone are two from the book.
What are the four major parts of the physical environment that ecologists often measure?
What is nitrogen, carbon, water, oxygen
An association of living organisms AND their physical environment
What is Ecosystem
Example of Water Cycle
Water evaporates over the ocean due to energy input from the sun, it then cools as it rises and condenses to form clouds. Eventually these droplets fall as rain, both on the ocean and the land. If it falls on land some will runoff into streams and lakes, eventually reaching the ocean. Some will be absorbed by plants and evaporate through transpiration. Some will evaporate from the surface of the runoff, some will reach groundwater and eventually reach a larger body of water, remaining there until it eventually evaporates.
Is it important to preserve the “wild places” and conserve and manage our natural resources? Why or why not?
What is Conservation is an important aspect of stewardship as a major responsibility of humans is to have dominion over the Earth and take care of it. Areas of God’s Creation should also be preserved as a testament to His majesty and creative authority. Finally, many of these areas supply humans with food and medicine, and so it is essential to the well-being of future generations that they be managed in a sustainable way.
A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together
Population
carbon cycle?
What is carbon being recycled in the world
Greenhouse effect?
what is Light from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth and radiated back, mostly as heat (infrared light). This heat would escape out into space except it is trapped by air molecules that absorb the heat and help the Earth moderate its temperature. Thus, the Earth has a much lower high temperature and a much higher low temperature each 24 hours than it would without these gases, making liquid water common on its surface and life possible.
List the trophic levels we talked about in class
What is producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary consumers
Give an example of Carbon Cycle
What is a plant absorbs carbon out of the air to make sugar, which is broken down by a cow that ate the plant, which is then released back into the air when the cow dies or is eaten, or through the waste of the cow.
list as many greenhouse gasses as you can IN ORDER OF THEIR EFFECTIVNESS as a greenhouse gas
What is Water vapor, methane, and carbon dioxide
If we measure the dry weight of the living things in an ecosystem, what do we call that?
What is Biomass
Water cycle?
What is Cycle or process by which water circulates.
Howe much more effective is methane as a greenhouse gas?
methane is twenty times as effective