Vocab Pt. 1
Any form of life (not talking about one of the four 'spheres')
Organisms
Air surrounding the earth
Atmosphere
Which of the following is a nonliving component: biotic or abiotic
Abiotic
Troposphere
In the TV show "The Office", what are the awards called that Michael Scott hands out to his employees?
Dundies
Earth’s liquid water, frozen water, and water vapor in the atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Earth’s intensely hot core, thick mantle composed mostly of rock, and thin outer crust that contains most of the earth’s rock, soil, and sediment
Geosphere
What percentage of usable energy makes it to the next trophic level when looking at the Pyramid of Energy Flow?
10%
Is a pig a herbivore, carnivore, or omnivore?
Omnivore
What is the name for a group of porcupines?
A prickle
Organism that cannot synthesize the organic nutrients it needs and gets its organic nutrients by feeding on the tissues of other organisms
Consumer
Animals that can use both plants and other animals as food sources
Omnivores
What is another name for nutrient cycles?
Biogeochemical Cycles
What is the name of a complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships?
Food Web
In what year was the first Apple iPhone released?
2007
Consumer organism that feeds on parts of dead organisms, and cast-off fragments and wastes of living organisms
Detritivores
Organism that uses solar energy or chemical energy to manufacture the organic compounds it needs as nutrients from simple inorganic compounds obtained from its environment
Producer
Who proposed the four basic principles or laws of ecology?
Barry Commoner
Energy use and transfer of energy by organisms from one feeding level to another involves a loss of some high-quality energy to the environment as low-quality energy in the form of heat, as required with what law?
Second Law of Thermodynamics
During which inning is "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" traditionally sung during a baseball game?
Complex process that occurs in the cells of most living organisms, in which nutrient organic molecules such as glucose combine with oxygen to produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy
Aerobic Respiration
Natural effect that releases heat in the atmosphere near the earth’s surface
Greenhouse Effect
What is necessary for the production of DNA and cell membranes, and is important for the formation of bones and teeth
Phosphorus
Life on land depends on roughly how many inches of topsoil?
6 inches
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