Terms
The dry weight of organic matter contained in its organisms.
What is biomass?
The water cycled is powered by this
What is the Sun?
Carbon compounds circulate through the..
What is biosphere,the atmosphere, and parts of the hydrosphere?
Nitrogen makes up ____ of the atmosphere.
What is 78%?
Nutrient cycle connect the
Past,present, and future.
Rate at which an ecosystem´s producers convert solar energy into chemical energy.
What is Gross Primary Productivity (GPP)?
Three major process of the water cycle is?
What is evaporation,precipitation,and transpiration?
Carbon dioxide makes up______ of the volume of the earth's atmosphere.
What is .038%?
Nitrogen is found in 4 main places.
What is animals,plants, ocean sediments, and atmosphere?
Withdraw large quantities of fresh water, clear vegetation from land for agriculture, and increase flooding when draining wetlands.
What is the affects of humans in the water cycle?
Rate at which producers use photosynthesis to produce and store chemical energy.
What is Net Primary Productivity (NPP)?
The primary sculptor of earth´s landscape
What is water?
Terrestrial producers remove CO2 from the atmosphere and _______ _______ remove it from the water.
What is aquatic producers?
Two natural process that convert nitrogen gas into compounds that plants and animals can use to make nutrients.
What is electrical discharges, and aquatic systems?
This atom takes over millions of years, buried deposits of dead plant matter and bacteria are compressed between layers of sediment.
What is ecological efficiency?
The amount of water supply that is available to humans and other species as liquid freshwater.
What is .024%?
Atoms that take a long time to recycle.
What is Carbon atoms?
Gases released to the atmosphere to begin the nitrogen again.
What is nitrogen, and nitrous oxide gas?
Rock produced when a pre-existing rock is subjected to high temperatures.
What is metamorphic rock?
1. Reliance on solar energy 2.Nutrient cycling 3.Biodiversity
What is principles of sustainability?
Most precipitation falling on terrestrial ecosystems becomes...
What is surface runoff?
Carbon is found in 3 main places.
What is Animals,Plants, and Fossil Fuels?
In what year does the text book say that the input of nitrogen will double?
2050
Rock that forms from the accumulated products of erosion.
What is sedimentary rock?