Water Cycle
What is the process called when water rises into the air as water vapor from bodies of water (e.g. lakes, rivers, etc.)?DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Evaporation
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Which process requires carbon dioxide and removes carbon from the atmosphere?
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Photosynthesis
How do pollutants enter organisms?
Respiration/breathing or consuming a plant/animal with pollutants
What is the first component of every food chain.
Plants/Producers
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Which species break down rocks and are the first species to arrive?
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Pioneer Species
How do plants take in water?
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Through their roots
What factors add carbon to the atmosphere?
Factories, Cars, Burning/Combustion, Cellular Respiration
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What is the difference between bioaccumulation and biomagnification?
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Bioaccumulation takes place in an organism over its lifetime.
Biomagnification takes place as chemicals are passed up the food chain from animals consuming each other.
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What do the arrows represent?
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The flow of energy
What is a stable, mature community in which there is little change in the number of species?
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What are rain and sleet examples of as a process?
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Precipitation
How does carbon end up in the soil?
Decomposers break down living organisms, and return the carbon into the soil as nutrients
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Name an example of a pollutant/contaminant
DDT, PCB, Heavy Metals, etc.
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What is the last component of every food chain that breaks down life?
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Decomposers
Name two things that can disrupt a community.
Fire, Hurricane, Flood, Mining, Deforestation, etc.
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Which process occurs in the clouds as water cools down and transforms from water vapor into liquid water?
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Condensation
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True or False
Carbon exists in many forms on Earth.
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True
Which of the following would most likely suffer the greatest impact from the biomagnification of harmful chemicals in an ecosystem?
Producers, Primary Consumers, Secondary Consumers, Tertiary Consumers
Tertiary Consumers
Grass -> Hamster -> Snake -> Hawk
Name the primary consumer
Hamster
A volcanic eruption causes lava flow to turn into rock. This is an example of what type of succession?
Primary Succession
What is the process called when plants or trees give off water into the atmosphere?
Transpiration
Why is it called the carbon cycle?
Carbon is cycled throughout the atmosphere and other components of the environment.
Describe an example of bioaccumulation or biomagnification.
Answers will vary.
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Aquatic Plants -> Minnow -> Heron -> Hawk
Name the tertiary consumer
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Hawk
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What type of succession takes place after a community has been destroyed but the soil still remains?
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Secondary Succession