Energy Transfer
The bottom of an energy pyramid will always have this type of organism.
What is a primary producer/autotroph?
The four types of precipitation
What are rain, snow, sleet and hail?
Carbon dioxide is taken in from the atmosphere and turned into glucose(sugar) during this process.
What is photosynthesis?
This element is the most abundant in Earth's atmosphere and is necessary for all living organisms because it is part of proteins.
What is nitrogen?
This is where most phosphorus on Earth is stored.
What is in rocks?
The amount of energy available to each level of an energy pyramid.
What is 10%?
The sun heats up oceans, lakes, streams, rivers, etc. causing the liquid water to turn into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
This species has the largest impact on the carbon cycle.
What is humans?
The organisms that drive the Nitrogen Cycle
What are bacteria?
Unlike the other biogeochemical cycles, the phosphorus cycle does not enter this part of Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
What is the sun?
What is condensation?
Animals breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide during this process.
What is respiration?
In this process, bacteria on legumes and in the soil take atmospheric nitrogen and "fix" it into ammonia.
What is nitrogen fixation?
The process through which phosphorus is released into the soil.
What is weathering/erosion?
These organisms are very important in breaking down dead and decaying material. Examples are bacteria and fungi.
What are decomposers?
Plants take groundwater up through their roots and it is evaporate through their leaves,
What is transpiration?
The burning of wood and/or fossil fuels that releases carbon back into the atmosphere.
What is combustion?
What is solid?
Excess amounts of phosphorus are funneled into aquatic ecosystems through runoff causing this to take place.
What is eutrophication?
This is represented by the arrows in a food chain or food web.
What is the flow of energy?
Water that isn't absorbed into the ground and flows down mountains into rivers, oceans, and lakes
What is surface runoff?
These decomposers break down dead and decaying matter to return carbon to the soil, eventually forming fossil fuels.
What are fungi and bacteria?
This happens when excess Nitrogen (and phosphorus) end up in aquatic ecosystems leading to an overgrowth of algae and death of aquatic life.
What is eutrophication
What are plants?