Earth Systems
What consists of the Earth's core, mantle, and thin outer crust?
Geosphere
What makes the food they need from compounds in soil, carbon dioxide, in air and water- using the energy from sunlight?
Producers
What animal is the predator of the frog
Snake?
What can the water cycle also be called?
Hydrologic cycle
____________ is the branch of biology that focuses on how organisms interact with one another and their physical environment.
Ecology
What is the envelope of gases that surrounds the planet?
What is another name for organisms that cannot produce their own food, known as consumers?
Heterotrophs
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
Define a cycle
Continuously repeating event or process
Nitrogen makes up _________ of the atmosphere?
78%
What is the layer in which weather occurs?
Troposphere
Primary consumers, organisms that eat mostly green plants or algae, can also be called:
Herbivores
Grass --> Mouse --> Snake --> Hawk
Who is the primary consumer?
Mouse
When water hits land and is soaked into the ground, the water becomes ___________
Groundwater
What is an example of a biotic component?
Plants
What layer includes all of the gaseous, liquid, and solid water on or near the Earth's surface?
Hydrosphere
_____________ are organisms that get their nutrients by breaking down nonliving organic matter such as leaf litter, fallen trees, and dead animals
Decomposers
Grass --> Mouse --> Snake --> Hawk
Who is the top consumer?
Hawk
List 3 sources of carbon
CO2, fossil fuel, dead organic matter
What are the 5 cycles of matter?
Water, Oxygen, Carbon, Nitrogen, Phosphorus
What are the percentages of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide, and other gases in the atmosphere?
Nitrogen: 78%
Oxygen: 21%
Argon: 0.9%
Carbon dioxide: 0.04%
Other gases: 0.06%
Pigs, rats, humans
What does the duck consume?
Earthworm
What are the 3 areas where phosphorus can be found?
Water, soil, rocks
What organism plays the most important role in the nitrogen cycle?
Bacteria