Biosphere & Ecosystems
What are bacteria harming the health of organisms in an ecosystem?
What is a biotic factor that could affect an ecosystem?
What is intense stress when plates separate, collide, subduct, or slide past each other?
Fault zones form at plate boundaries because of this
What is a wet and warm climate?
A climate that is hot and receives a lot of rain.
What is an increase in the demand for food in the regions?
The impact of exponential human population growth on global regions
This is the force that pulls everything toward the center of Earth.
What is gravity?
What is the Taiga?
Place the levels of organization in order from the smallest to the largest.
What are plate boundaries?
What are the places where tectonic plates meet?
What is humus?
This is responsible for giving surface soil a dark brown color.
What is a decrease in carbon dioxide levels?
What is caused by less greenhouse gases in the atmosphere?
The planet is known as the "red planet"
What is Mars?
What are organism, population, community, ecosystem, biosphere?
What are the levels of organization in an ecosystem?
What is a mid-ocean ridge, due to the separation of two plates?
What is a divergent plate boundary?
What is poor aeration, workability, and permeability?
What are characteristics of compacted soil?
What is producing energy without polluting the atmosphere with CO2?
clean energy or zero-emission energy.
What is the gas do humans breathe in that is essential for survival.
What is oxygen?
What is Primary Producer, Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer, Quaternary Consumer?
What are tropic levels?
What is the discovery of fossils of the same organism on different continents?
Proof that continents were once connected.
What is physical weathering?
The breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces without changing the rock’s composition.
What is a population above carrying capacity will have a decrease in natural resources?
The relationship between carrying capacity and Earth's resources.
This is the process by which plants make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
What is an invasive, nonnative species?
Kudzu is a vine that grows rapidly and prevents other plants from getting sunlight.
What is because rocks become less dense when they melt?
Magma tends to rise towards Earth's crust in convection currents for this reason.
What is silty clay loam?
A soil has 10% sand, 60% silt, and 30% clay particles.
What is 4.6 billion years?
The age of the earth
This is the smallest unit of life that can carry out all life processes.
What is a cell?