Out of This World!
Plant's direct source of energy and the ultimate source of almost all energy on Earth
What is the Sun?
Formed by the melting and cooling of rock in the rock cycle.
What is igneous rock?
A species relationship in which both species benefit
What is mutualism?
The mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth.
The unabbreviated version of CAFO
What is a confined/concentrated animal feeding operation?
The third planet from the Sun.
What is the Earth?
A hard, black, sedimentary rock formed by the ancient remains of plants. Burning it produces about 1/3 of the Earth's electricity.
What is coal?
What is 10%?
All of the water on or near Earth's surface.
What is the hydosphere?
The carbon containing molecule responsible for much of Earth's current warming.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
The process the powers the radiant energy of stars, including our Sun.
What is nuclear fusion?
Groundwater stored in an underground basin (e.g. The Ogallala _______)
What is an aquifer?
A species that is one of the earliest to be found after a disturbance resulting in primary succession (e.g. moss or lichen)
What is a pioneer species?
The movement of water in a plant from the roots to the leaves, and then evaporation from the leaves
What is transpiration?
The type of ecological succession would you expect to see after a wildfire.
What is secondary succession?
The hypothesis that states that the sun and planets formed out of the same rotating cloud of gas and dust.
What is the nebular hypothesis?
The landforms of the Earth found at convergent plate boundaries? (100 points each)
What are volcanic island arcs, volcanic mountain ranges, ocean trenches, and folded mountains?
Label the following food chain with the correct biomass estimates.
Kelp -> Sea Urchin -> Sea Otter -> Orca Whale
(30,000 kg) (300,000 kg) (3,000 kg) (3,000,000 kg)
What is...
Kelp = 3,000,000 kg
Sea Urchin = 300,000 kg
Sea Otter = 30,000 kg
Orca Whale = 3,000 kg
Order the following layers of Earth from closest to Earth's surface to furthest away.
Thermosphere, Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Exosphere
What is the
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
A recurring climate pattern involving changes in the temperature of waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. During one phase it results in North Carolina experiencing warmer and drier winters and in the other phase NC experiences cooler and wetter winters.
What is ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation)?
Earth has an aphelion distance of 152,000,000 km and an perihelion distance of 147,000,000 km. Calculate the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit around the sun.
e=(RA - RP)/(RA + RP)
What is 0.0137?
SOIL TRINAGLE!!! (Please hold for a moment while I pull up the slide)
In the meantime, write a random number between 15 and 60 on your whiteboard.
What is [some kind of soil]??
a density-dependent limiting factor in which organisms (or species) try to gather needed resources before others C----------
What is competition?
Draw a model showing the relative densities of the following in a water column:
Warm Fresh Water, Cold salty water, Warm Salty Water, Vegetable oil
From top to bottom it goes:
Vegetable Oil
Warm Fresh Water
Warm Salty Water
Cold Salty Water
Name two human activities that affect global systems
Burning fossil fuels, deforestation, monoculture, develepment/urbanization, habitat fragmentation, hunting/fishing, introduction of invasive species, pollution
Venus has an average distance from the Sun of 1.0821*1011 m. Use Kepler’s 2nd Law to Calculate Venus’s average orbital velocity as it orbits the sun in meters per second.
v=((G*MSun)/r)(1/2) MSun = 2.01* 1030kg
G = 6.67 * 10-11
What is 35,111 m/s?
What are mantle convection currents, ridge push, and slab pull?
An ecological relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed?
What is commensalism?
The uneven sharing of electrons, or polarity, of water molecules creates a number of important effects in water. List 4.
What are surface tension, adhesion, cohesion, strong solvent, and high specific heat.
One of the most polluted rivers for PFAS in the United States. The river is formed at the confluence of the Haw River and the Deep River in the town of Moncure, North Carolina and empties into the Atlantic Ocean near Wilmington, NC.
What is the Cape Fear River?
Calculate the gravitational force between the moon and the Earth during a supermoon. The mass of the Earth is 6*1024 kg, the mass of the moon is 7.35*1022 kg, and the distance between the two will be 363,300,000 m at the moon's perigee.
FG = G * (M*m)/(r2)
G = 6.67*10-11
What is 2.2*1020 N?
Order the following scientist's work from oldest to newest:
Marie Tharp, Alfred Wegener, Harry Hess, Frederick Vine & Drummond Matthews, and Arthur Holmes?
What is
Wegener
Holmes
Tharp
Hess
Vine & Matthews?
An ecological process that begins with the top of the food chain and has ripple effects all the way down to the bottom (e.g. sea otters in kelp forest ecosystems or wolves in Yellowstone National Park)
What is a trophic cascade?
Draw a model showing convection within the atmosphere along Earth's equator. Label the kind of biome found along the equator and at 30 degrees North and South latitude.
[Walk them up for a check]
Name as many solutions as you can to addresses health or environmental impacts due to wildfires.
What are conducting prescribed fires, educating the public, building fire-resistant landscaping, enacting burn bans under specific conditions, wearing high grade (N95) masks during smoke events, using DIY box fan filters, issuing air quality alerts, having a community wildfire protection plan, restoring fire resilient ecosystems, reducing greenhouse gas emissions?