Ecosystem Cycle
Carbon cycle vocab:
1. What is Combustion?
2. What is Decomposition?
3. What is Carbon Sink?
1. The burning of a substance. Ex: fossil fuels, fireplace
2. The breakdown of a substance into smaller/simpler forms.
3. The things take in more carbon dioxide then they give off. Ex: Trees and oceans
1. What is a renewable resource?
2. What are some examples?
1. Something we can get more of in our lifetime.
2. solar, wind, water energy, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass, trees, livestock, crops.
Describe the Desert.
What are some examples?
Very hot and dry, plants grow far apart, shallow roots to get water, leaves have waxy coat to prevent water loss, animals active at night.
cactus, desert tortoise
What are the 3 types of freshwater biomes?
Ponds and Lakes, Wetlands, Streams and Rivers.
Nitrogen cycle vocab:
1. What is nitrogen fixation?
2. What percent of the atmosphere is made up of nitrogen?
3. What is nitrogen used for?
1. aka "nitrification"- bacteria change the form of nitrogen into a form that plants can use.
2. 78%
3. To build protien and DNA for new cells.
1. What is a non-renewable resource?
2. What are some examples?
1. Once it's used up it can't be made again OR we can't get more in our lifetime.
2. fossil fuels, coal, gasoline, oil, natural gas, mineral.
Describe the grasslands.
What are some examples?
Flat, gentle rolling hills, few trees, drought and fires prevent tree growth.
Mice, bison
What are the 3 types of saltwater biomes?
Coastal Estuaries and Shorelines (Intertidal Areas), Coral reefs (Neritic Zone), open oceans (oceanic zone)
Water Cycle Vocab:
1. What is condensation?
2. What is evaporaiton?
3.What is runoff?
4.What is ground water?
5. What is infiltration?
6. What is transpiration?
1. Water vapor (gas) changes to liquid.
2. Liquid water changes to water vapor (gas).
3. When water travels over land. ex: streams, rivers)
4. Water found INSIDE the ground.
5. When water soaks into the ground.
6. When plants give off water vapor.
1. What is a reusable resource?
2. What are some examples?
1. Something that can be used more than once-recycling
2. Plastics, aluminum, paper, carboard, glass.
Describe the Temperate Deciduous Forest.
What are some examples?
Trees shed leaves to save water during winter/dry season.
Bears, snakes
Name the parts to a carbon cycle.
Combustion gives of CO2, Green plants absord CO2, Animals eat plants, animals respire and gives CO2.
Also, Decomposing matter gives of CO2.
What are the 6 terrestrial biomes?
Coniferous Forest, Desert, Grasslands, Temperature Deciduous Forest, Tropical Rain Forest, Tundra.
1. Describes the Tropical Rain Forest.
1. More kinds of plants and animals, animals live in canopies (treetops), thin soil, soil lacks nutrients, nutrients found in plants.
1. Name the part to a nitrogen cycle.
2. Name the parts to a water cycle.
1. Nitrgen in the air, Nitrogen in decaying matter and watse, Bacteria "fix" nitrogen for use by plants, Nitrogen in plant protiens, Nitrogen in animal protiens.
2. condensation, precipitation, runoff, Infiltration, ground water, transpiration, evaporation.
Describe the Coniferous Forest.
What are some examples?
Produce seeds in cone shape, leaves shaped like needles, evergreen trees keep leaves. Not much light, ground covered in needles.
Squirrels, moose
1. Describe the Tundra.
2. What are some examples?
1. Really cold, no trees. Polar Tundra: north and south poles, permafrost (soil stays frozen but top layer thaws.) Alpine tundra: permafrost on top of mountains.
2. Mosquitos lay eggs in mud, musk oxen, wolves, caribou.