Energy Transfer in the Atmosphere
Heat can move when two objects touch through this process.
What is Conduction?
Earth’s surface does not warm evenly because of this effect.
What is uneven heating?
The line at 0° latitude is called this.
What is the equator?
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an autotroph or a producer?
A close relationship between two species.
What is symbiosis?
Heat moves through fluids like air and water because warm parts rise and cool parts sink.
What is convection?
This movement of air or water is driven by changes in temperature and density.
What is a convection current?
Lines that run north to south and measure east–west positions.
What is longitude?
A group of the same species living in one area.
Organisms that cannot make their own food.
What are heterotrophs or consumers?
Both species benefit in this type of relationship. (+,+)
What is mutualism?
Heat from the Sun reaches Earth through this type of transfer.
What is radiation?
Warm air rises because it has less of this physical property.
What is density?
The line at 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
All the living and nonliving parts interacting in one place.
What is an ecosystem?
Tiny animals that feed on dead material and recycle nutrients.
What is a detritivore?
One species benefits; the other is unaffected.(+, 0)
What is commensalism?
This type of heat transfer always moves from warmer areas to cooler ones.
What is thermal energy?
The top 400 meters of the ocean current is driven by wind?
What is a surface current?
The imaginary lines that run east–west and measure north–south positions.
What is latitude?
All the ecosystems build biomes. All of the biomes build the ___________.
What is the biosphere?
Animals that eat only plants.
What is a herbivore?
One species benefits while harming the other. (+, -)
What is parasitism?
This type of heat transfer does not require molecules to move or touch.
What is radiation?
This deep ocean current is driven by salt and heat.
What are thermohaline currents?
These divide Earth into northern and southern halves.
What are hemispheres?
All of the populations living in an area.
What is community?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
When one organism hunts another for food.
What is a predator-prey relationship?