Earth's VIP
This sphere includes all living organisms on Earth.
What is the biosphere?
Biome with highest net primary productivity and species richness.
What is tropical rainforest?
Identify the cycle most disrupted by synthetic fertilizer use and explain the impact.
What is the nitrogen cycle, because excess nitrates cause eutrophication?
Approximate percent energy transferred between trophic levels.
What is 10%?
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is skin?
Sphere where greenhouse gases accumulate.
What is the atmosphere?
Biome with permafrost and low biodiversity.
What is Tundra?
Justify why the phosphorus cycle is considered a limiting factor in aquatic ecosystems.
What is because phosphorus is scarce and does not cycle through the atmosphere?
Role an organism plays in its ecosystem.
What is Niche?
Metric unit used to measure energy in food.
What is calorie?
The term for the variety of life across ecosystems.
What is biodiversity?
Biome with xerophytic plants adapted to low precipitation.
What is desert?
The process by which bacteria convert nitrogen gas into ammonia.
What is nitrogen fixation?
Diagram showing feeding relationships. ONE ANSWER.
What is food web?
Law stating energy cannot be created or destroyed.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
What is the Law of Conservation?
Sphere storing most sedimentary nutrients like phosphorus.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
What is the lithosphere?
Biome maintained by periodic disturbance like fire and grazing.
What is Savanna?
The downward movement of water through soil and rock layers after it has infiltrated the surface.
What is percolation?
Symbiotic relationship where
- both species benefit
- one benefits, the other is unaffected
- one benefits at the expense of the other.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
What is
- Mutualism
- Commensalism
- Parasitism
?
Subatomic particle with a negative charge.
What is electron?
Identify the sphere most impacted by anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and justify why.
What is the atmosphere, because it traps heat and alters climate systems?
The trees in this forest biome lose their leaves annually in the autumn, leading to a colorful display.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
What is temperate deciduous forest?
This process involves plants releasing water vapor from their leaves, returning it to the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
The difference between species richness & evenness.
What is Species richness is the number of different species in a community, while species evenness is the relative abundance of individuals across those species?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is jupiter?