Same Planet, Different Drama
This freshwater biome includes slow-moving water bodies like lakes and ponds.
What are Lentic Systems?
This cycle involves the movement of carbon through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and geosphere.
What is the Carbon Cycle?
This is the total amount of energy captured by producers through photosynthesis.
What is Gross Primary Production?
This human activity is the primary source of increased atmospheric CO₂.
What is Burning Fossil Fuels?
This formula is used to calculate percent change between an old value and a new value.
What is:
(n e w- o l d) / (old) x100
This freshwater biome includes rivers and streams with flowing water.
What are Lotic Systems?
This cycle includes processes like evaporation, condensation, and precipitation.
What is the Water Cycle?
This is the energy remaining after producers use some for respiration.
What is Net Primary Production?
This phenomenon refers to the trapping of heat by gases in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
This rule estimates how long it takes a population to double using a growth rate.
What is the Rule of 70?
This biome is saturated with water, supports unique vegetation, and acts as a natural water filter.
What are Wetlands?
Unlike other major cycles, this one does not have a significant atmospheric component.
What is the Phosphorus Cycle?
This process uses energy captured by producers for their own metabolic needs.
What is Cellular Respiration?
This international agreement aimed to phase out substances that deplete the ozone layer.
What is the Montreal Protocol?
This formula calculates population density using total individuals and land area.
What is:
(pop u lation) / (area)
This coastal biome is highly productive and serves as a nursery for many marine species.
What are Estuaries?
The largest reservoir of carbon on Earth is found here.
What are Sedimentary Rocks?
This biome typically has the highest NPP due to warm temperatures and high precipitation.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
These chemicals were once used in aerosols and are responsible for ozone depletion.
What are Chlorofluorocarbons?
This formula calculates growth rate using births, deaths, immigration, and emigration.
What is:
(births+immigration)−(deaths+emigration)
This biome is found in tropical oceans and is known for high biodiversity and sensitivity to temperature changes.
What are Coral Reefs?
This process removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and converts it into organic matter.
What is Photosynthesis?
This biome has low NPP due to limited water availability.
What is the Desert?
This type of pollution forms when sunlight reacts with nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds.
What is Photochemical Smog?
This formula calculates Net Primary Production using energy captured and energy used.
What is:
NPP=GPP−R