Nutrients
Energy Transfer
Nutrient cycles
Growth in society
vocabulary
100
Name two types of carbohydrates.
What are pastas, rice, grains/cereals, fruits...etc?
100
This is the main source of energy for the Earth.
What is the Sun?
100
Using fossil fuels in cars and power plants has two negative effects, one is that once we use them we lose them and the other is this...
What is pollution?
100
Name two factors that may stop growth of any population.
What is lack of food, lack of habitat, lack of mates....others may be accepted
100
To come in to a new habitat.
What is Immigration?
200
Name two types of lipids.
What is oil, butter...other fatty foods?
200
Name two types of alternative energies, instead of using fossil fuels.
What is either wind energy, solar energy, or hydroelectric?
200
Over 2/3rds of the earth is covered in this recycled matter.
What is water?
200
This many billion people live on Earth
What is 7 billion?
200
To exit one's natural home/habitat.
What is Emigration (with an E)?
300
Carbohydrates do this for the body
What is provide usable energy?
300
This process is done by plants and gives oxygen and sugar to animals that depend on it.
What is photosynthesis?
300
This nutrient makes up about 78% of earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
300
This term means, Quick/big growth in a short period of time
What is exponential growth?
300
This means a slow/steady growth (opposite of exponential)
What is logistic growth?
400
What do lipids do for our body?
What is provide stored energy, warmth/insulation, or fat?
400
This process that animals go through gives carbon dioxide to plants.
What is cellular respiration?
400
Matter gets _______________ in cycles because there is only so much of it on earth.
What is recycled?
400
this is the term for the end of growth because of lack of enough resources
What is carrying capacity?
400
This is what happened to over 98% of all species thought to have ever existed.
What is extinction?
500
Proteins help with this, in humans.
What is growth and development/repair?
500
These two things are used to describe the process by which how food/energy is transferred in an ecosystem.
What is a food chain and a food web?
500
The name of the fossil fuels/oils stored in the ground of the earth. (all made of carbon..hint hint)
What is the carbon sink?
500
The factor that stops growth from happening.
What is the limiting factor?
500
Name the three of the nutrient cycles we talked about in class.
What is the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle and water cycle?
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