The Carbon Cycle
Carbon in its gas form is called...
Carbon Dioxide
What is a food chain?
A food chain shows the direction in which energy moves through an ecosystem as living things consume other living things.
Plants are what type of consumer?
Producers
What two types of factors must exist in a healthy ecosystem?
Abiotic and biotic factors
How much of the atmosphere is made up of Nitrogen?
78%
What do plants do with the Carbon Dioxide they take in?
They produce sugars (Carbon chains) and release Oxygen as a waste product
What is a food web?
What type of consumer is the fox in this food web: Grass---> Bugs----> Rabbits---->Fox
Tertiary consumer
Abiotic factors are...
Biotic factors are...
Abiotic: Nonliving things in an ecosystem
Biotic: Living things in an ecosystem
Animals that eat both meat and producers are called...
Omnivores
Coal, Humans, Animals, CO2, Fruits
In a food web, what do the arrows represent? *Careful with your answer!*
The direction that energy is traveling
What type of "eater" is a worm?
A decomposer
Fill in the sentence: the Earth is a ________ system. Matter inside of it is neither _______ or ________.
Earth is a closed system. Matter inside of it is neither created or destroyed.
Choose one of the following: chocolate, beef, or fast fashion. Explain how it's negatively impacting the environment.
Answers vary.
Humans are releasing greenhouse gases that have been buried for millions of years and offsetting the balance of the Carbon cycle. Producers are unable to take in CO2 gas at the same rate as it's being released into the ozone layer.
How much biomass is lost as you go up each trophic level in a food chain?
90%
What type of "eater" is a vegetarian?
Primary consumer/herbivore
List 3 biotic factors and 3 abiotic factors in our ecosystem
Biotic: Humans, plants, grass
Abiotic: Water, the Sun, Rocks
How do humans negatively impact the water cycle?
What is Carbon in its gaseous form called?
Carbon Dioxide
Why is a food web a more accurate representation of an ecosystem than a food chain?
A food web shows many interconnected food chains and in real like, animals rarely ever have just one food source or one predator.
Explain why eating vegetarian/vegan can lower your Carbon footprint and be better for the environment.
Cows and livestock require lots of resources to produce for a smaller amount of food. By eating producers, we are absorbing the majority of the original amount of energy, instead of it all being lost as it moves up the food chain.
What is the name of the ecosystem we live in?
Chaparral ecosystem
What is the Haber Process?
A process where a machine forces more ammonia molecules to be created and used for fertilizer