Earth's Spheres
All of the living things on Earth.
What is the Biosphere?
An ecosystem with very hot summers, mild winters, and species such as cacti and scorpions. Abiotic factors include mountains and sand.
What is the Sonoran Desert (or desert)?
Humans get energy from the food they eat. What are three reasons we need energy?
Acceptable: to grow, walk, move, recover/ heal, think, maintain stable body temperature (etc.).
An organism's home that meets all of its requirements for life.
What is a habitat?
Humans are using massive amounts of this artificial, non-degradable material and it is causing marine life distress.
What is plastic?
All of the lakes, rivers, oceans, streams and other bodies on Earth.
What is the Hydrosphere?
Ecosystem that is very cold, home to polar bears and penguins with land covered in ice.
What is the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (or Arctic)?
Plants gain energy (food) through a process called photosynthesis. They do not need other organisms for energy. For this reason, they are called _____.
What are producers?
The term we use for multiple individuals of the same species.
What is population?
A species that is introduced (non-native) to an ecosystem that may have a negative effect on the ecosystem.
What is an invasive species?
All of the gases on Earth.
What is the Atmosphere?
Ecosystem in the biome of taiga that is home to red foxes, grizzly bears, and evergreen trees and experiences long cold winters and shorter warm summers.
What is Yellowstone National Park?
Animals that need to eat other organisms to gain food energy. (Example: humans eat cow products)
What are consumers?
An ecosystem contains both _______ and _______ factors.
What are biotic and abiotic?
Scientists have evidence that the global temperature is rising because of the excess of this gas.
What is carbon dioxide (Co2)?
All of the rocky, mineral material on Earth.
What is the Geosphere?
Ecosystem that is subtropical, home to alligators, densely populated with insects and very humid.
What is the Florida Everglades?
Organisms that feeds on parts of dead organisms and converts this matter into chemicals.
The climate zone lying between the equator and North and South Poles.
What is the temperate climate zone?
The rise in use of vehicles for transportation and growth of factories and manufacturing around the world has caused a rise in air and water __________.
What is pollution?
Frozen bodies of water and the polar ice caps are considered this part of the Hydrosphere.
What is the Cryosphere?
Ecosystem in the freshwater biome that is home to beavers, many birds, trees, and part of the largest free-flowing river in the eastern United States.
What is the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (Delaware)?
The food that we eat is made of matter (takes up space and has mass). Matter is made up of these tiny parts.
What are atoms?
The process by which producers make energy-rich molecules (food) from water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light (Sun).
What is photosynthesis?
How does global warming affect organisms in the Arctic and those near the oceans? Be specific.