water cycle
What is condensation
molecule present in all known life
what is CO2
What is the name of the ecological role of fungi who break down other organisms?
What is decomposers
how many times farther is a kilometer than a meter?
What is 1000 times
What is cross contamination?
What is when two substances mix unintentionally, potentially having an unwanted effect on data
Name for water that flows off land surfaces into bodies of water.
What is runoff
What process converts solar energy, carbon and water into glucose and oxygen?
What is Photosynthesis
what is a primary producer?
What is an organism that generates energy for it's ecosystem via the sun.
how tall in cm is someone standing at 1.7 meters tall
what is 170 cm
Who fell into the living lab pond?
Who is Nico Graham
Name the three processes through which salt water is naturally converted into freshwater?
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation
These underground deposits of ancient organic matter store carbon for millions of years.
what are fossil fuels
What percentage of energy is lost moving up a trophic level? How is it lost?
What is 10% through heat
what is the best base unit of measurement for the volume of a liquid?
what is Liter (L)
What are 3 abiotic factors of an ecosystem
What are mountains, rocks, water, etc.
The layer of rock or sediment that holds groundwater.
what is an aquifer?
What is the difference between a carbon source and a carbon sink?
What is Carbon sources Release more carbon, Carbon sinks store more carbon
What are the names for organisms that produce their own energy, and those that consume energy from other organisms
what are autotrophs and heterotrophs
If the circumference of earth is 40,000Km, how long is it in mm?
what is forty billion mm
What is the best graph measuring the change in a variable over time?
What is a line graph
The effect where a plant releases water as vapor directly through it's leaves
What is transpiration
Releasing 120 billion metric tons (120 Pg) of carbon to the atmosphere every year, what is earth's biggest carbon source?
What are respiration and decomposition of organisms
Name all the ecological levels
what are Individual, Population, Community, ecosystem, biome, biosphere
how many nanometers is 1 kilometer?
what is one trillion nanometers
What is Biomass?