Carbon
What is the most important use for carbon?
It makes up food
What is the source of energy required for photosynthesis?
Sunlight
Pesticides are who's enemy?
Insects
Where is the highest concentration of nitrogen found?
The atmosphere
The rapid increase in global population is causing what element to increase in our atmosphere?
Carbon or specifically carbon dioxide
Where is the highest concentration of carbon found?
oceans
What process does photosynthesis go hand in hand with?
Cellular respiration
The name given to insects considered inconvenient or a nuisance to humans.
Pest
Which of the following is not a natural element?
Nitrogen, Carbon, Plastic, Hydrogen, Oxygen
Plastic
What does mortality do to a population?
Causes it to decrease
If carbon is never destroyed what happens to the carbon in our body after we die?
It is recycled
What are two important "things" a plant creates during photosynthesis?
Oxygen and sugar
Reason mosquitos are an essential part of an ecosystem.
They provide food for secondary consumers.
In order for nitrogen (N) to be useful, it has to be in this form.
nitrate or NO3
(birth + immigration) - (death + emigration) = ?
population growth
What is the beginning stages of coal? (fossil fuels)
Peat
What is the chemical equation for cellular respiration?
C6H12O6 + O2 = CO2 + H2O
Sugar + Oxygen = Carbon Dioxide + Water
Continued usage of the same pesticide will result in:
Fewer pest being killed with each application.
or pesticide resilience.
The bacteria that breaks down Nitrates back into nitrogen gas.
Denitrifying bacteria
Name 2 out of the 4 factors that relates to the growth of a population.
Birth potential, survival, maturity, procreation
Two ways humans increase carbon in the atmosphere?
burning fossil fuels, breathing, farming
What is the chemical equation for photosynthesis?
Co2 + H2O = C6H12O6 +Os
carbon dioxide + water + Sugar + Oxygen
When chemicals or toxins build up in an animal.
Bioaccumulation
One way nitrogen (N) is converted into nitrite (NO2)
Lightning or nitrifying bacteria
What is the population growth of foxes in Miramichi?
Births = 300
Immigration = 50
Deaths = 200
Emigration = 50
100