Vocab
What is a producer vs consumer?
Producers make/create (goods, services, food), while consumers use/buy/eat what producers make
Large geographical area characterized by specific climate patterns, distinct vegetation (plants), and animal life
What is Biome?
How much percentage of energy is transferred?
What are the 4 spheres of earth?
What is Geosphere, Hydrosphere, Atmosphere & Biosphere?
Things that control population growth (Food, Water, Space)
What is limiting factors?
a visual model showing how energy flows and decreases through different feeding levels (trophic levels) in an ecosystem
What is an energy pyramid?
What are the 9 world biomes?
What is the Tundra, Taiga, Grasslands, Deciduous Forest, Savanna, Chaparral, Rainforest, Desert & Alpine?
A close, long-term interaction between two different species where they depend on each other for survival or benefit in some way.
What is a symbiotic relationship?
How is the atmosphere divided?
Five main layers based on temperature changes with altitude.
Largest population an area can support.
Carrying Capacity
J-curve vs S-curve?
Exponential growth (growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid) vs Logistic Growth (Logistic growth models how a population or quantity increases rapidly at first, similar to exponential growth, but then slows down)
How are climate and weather different?
Weather is the fluctuation of temperature and precipitation. Climate is the weather in a particular area over a period of time.
What are the types of symbiotic relationship's?
What is mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism?
Outer edge of atmosphere, extends for hundreds of miles and allows satellites to orbit.
Why is biodiversity important for ecosystem stability?
It creates resilience, enhances productivity, and ensures the continuation of essential functions like pollination, nutrient cycling, and climate regulation.
Sunlight + Photosynthesis
What is Photic Zone?
Mix of Salt + Freshwater
What is Estuaries?
What is it when energy cannot be created or destroyed?
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
Above the trophospere, contains the ozone layer which protects Earth's surface.
What is the stratosphere layer?
Which biome has the highest biodiversity? (Desert, Coral Reef, Tundra, or Grassland)
What is coral reef?
Coal, Oil & Gas
What is Nonrenewable resources?
What are Climatograms?
A graph that plots average monthly temperature and precipitation for a specific location, using a line graph for temperature and a bar graph for precipitation
What happens to energy that is not transferred?
What is stays as undigested food or given off as heat?
Very very hot air, sits above mesosphere and extremely low density.
What is the thermosphere?
What is the main reason energy decreases at each trophic level?
What is organisms store the energy in forms of glucose?