Photosynthesis
This product of Photosynthesis is a gas
Extra 100 if you can name the other product of photosynthesis
Oxygen
Glucose
This product of cellular respiration is a gas
Carbon Dioxide
What form does carbon commonly take in the atmosphere?
Carbon Dioxide
The maximum # of organisms an ecosystem can carry is...
carrying capacity
Grass, trees, and algae are all examples of what trophic level?
Producer
Name for an organism that can make its own food
Extra 100 if you give me an example
Autotroph or producer
Grass, tree, shrub, algae, etc.
Where does Cellular Respiration take place?
Mitochondria
Why are phosphorus and nitrogen important elements for living organisms?
Organic molecules such as DNA/RNA, proteins, and ATP (energy unit) all contain nitrogen and phosphorus! Without these elements, we couldn't exist!
Factors that cause a population’s growth rate to change with increasing population density
An extra 200 if you can list 2 of them
Density Dependent Factors
If a producer has 1000 energy units, how many does the secondary consumer receive?
Extra 100 points if you can tell me how many energy units the tertiary consumer receives.
10 energy units
1 energy unit
What is the name for the molecule of plant food produced during photosynthesis?
Glucose
Aerobic cellular respiration requires ____________ while anaerobic doesn't.
oxygen
All three biogeochemical cycles require what tiny lifeforms to help keep the cycles going?
Extra 100 points if you can name a specific job some of them do in the *nitrogen* cycle
Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Cycle: Bacteria to decompose organisms + return elements back to soil
Nitrogen Cycle: convert nitrogen between various forms and places (soil and air); nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria
Natural Disasters and habitat destruction are examples of what type of factors?
Density Independent Factors
producers
What are the 3 reactants of photosynthesis?
Carbon Dioxide, Water, Sunlight
Which kind of cellular respiration produces more ATP?
Extra 200 if you can give me the number of ATP produced by this process
Aerobic Cellular Respiration
32-38 ATP
The process where plants grow too fast due to excessive nutrients, resulting death of aquatic life, is called what?
Eutrophication
Overhunting/overfishing can lead to the ____________ of an entire species.
Extra 100 if you can name one animal species that has experienced this fate.
Extinction
Dodo bird, Great auk
What percent of energy is passed on to the next tropic level?
100 extra points if you can tell me the form that most energy is lost in
10%
Heat
Where does photosynthesis take place?
Extra 200 if you can name the green pigment that makes photosynthesis possible
Chloroplast in the leaves
Chlorophyll
What is another word for anaerobic respiration? Extra 200 points if you can name the one humans do in our muscle cells when we are super tired.
Fermentation
Lactic Acid Fermentation
Name 2 places on Earth where nitrogen can be found.
Extra 100 if you can name a 3rd place.
Soil/Earth, water, air, living organisms (plants, animals, and bacteria)
This compound in a layer in the atmosphere protects us from UV rays and sunburns
Extra 200 if you can name the chemical that severely damaged the layer
Ozone
Top level (tertiary/quaternary level)