Atmosphere
What does Atmo mean?
Atmo=Air
What does Hydro mean?
Hydro=Water
What does Bio Mean?
Bio=Life
What is Photosynthesis?
What do Food chains/Webs describe?
How energy Flows throughout an ecosystem
A Layer in-between the Stratosphere and Mesosphere.
O-zone layer
Example of a Hydrosphere?
What is the Biosphere?
A complex network of interconnected food chains.
What is a food chain?
A sequence of organisms that serves as a source of nutrients or energy for the next level of organisms.
What is the Green House Effect?
When heat is trapped in Earth's atmosphere causing greenhouse gases.
How much of your body is made up of H2O?
75%+
What is Ecology?
A branch in Bio. that study's how living organisms interact with eachother.
What is a Trophic level?
What does a Trophic Level depend on?
Each organism in an ecosystem is assigned a feeding a feeding level.
1. Whether it makes food or finds food.
2. If it finds food, what its feeding behavior is.
A food chain must have what?
Producer, Primary consumer, and Secondary consumer
How does the Atmosphere protect the Earth?
How much of the Ocean makes up the Earth?
96.5%
What is the Goal for Environmental Science?
To understand how the interactions of the biosphere and how humans interact with it.
What is a Producer?
A species that creates its own food.
How can we protect the food chain?
What are the 5 "spheres" that make up the Atmosphere? (In order closest to the Earth's crust)
1. Troposphere
2. Stratosphere
3. Mesosphere
4. Thermosphere
5. Exosphere
What system/cycle is a perfect example of how the Hydrosphere interacts with the environment?
The Water Cycle
What other "spheres" make up with Biosphere?
Atmosphere
Geosphere/Lithosphere
Hydrosphere
What is a Consumer?
What are the three types?
Consumers cannot produce their own food, instead they consume producers.
1. Primary (Consumes the producer directly (Herbivores))
2. Secondary (Animals who feed on Primary)
3. Tertiary (Animals who feed on both primary and secondary)
What happens if a foodchain/web is disrupted?
it can cause animals in the chain to vanish, hence causing an imbalance in the ecosystem or can cause the whole system to collapse.