Energy Transfer
The percent of energy that is lost as heat and waste between each trophic level
Which cycle involves releasing nutrients from rocks through weathering as well as fertilizers
What is the phosphorus cycle?
a tropical grassland with a few scattered trees
What is savanna?
The difference between a renewable and nonrenewable resource
What is it's being able to replace itself in a useful time frame (i.e. within a human life)?
Methane, carbon dioxide, ozone, water vapor, and nitrous oxides are all examples of...
What is a greenhouse gas?
Label the following as biotic or abiotic factors:
-Tree
-Rock
-Cloud
-Zooplankton
What is
Biotic
Abiotic
Abiotic
Biotic
Define infiltration
the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil
conifers and evergreen trees/shrubs with needle-like leaves.
What is taiga/coniferous forest?
Name 2 nonrenewable energy resources
What are fossil fuels and uranium (nuclear)?
The layer of the atmosphere where the ozone layer is found
What is the stratosphere?
The trophic level that contains mostly herbivores
What is primary consumer?
What is lightning?
Rocky terrain, shrubs, wet winters and hot, dry summers.
What is chapparall?
Name 3 renewable energy resources
What is solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, etc?
Name one example of a product that contains or used to contain ozone (O3)
What is aerosol sprays, refrigerants, etc?
The level of biological organization that best describes all of the species of turtles, algae, and fish living in the same river
What is community?
The type of plant that assists with nitrogen fixation in the soil
What are legumes?
where the freshwater river meets the saltwater ocean, very high levels of nutrients
What is estuary?
What is one con of using renewable energy
They can be expensive to make and maintain the machinery
The number one producer of carbon dioxide emissions
What is burning fossil fuels?
According to the laws of thermodynamics, which energy level should contain the MOST energy?
How plants play a role in the carbon cycle
What is photosynthesis?
Contain water during part of the year, but occassionally dries up. crucial for flood prevention and water quality.
What is wetland?
Wind turbines placed in the ocean where winds are stronger.
What is offshore wind?
What causes methane emissions?
What is waste from agriculture?