Seasons & Climate
Which part(s) of the Earth has 0 degree latitude?
Equator
What is the largest reservoir of carbon on earth?
Underground rocks
What plate boundary causes mostly earthquakes?
transform
Which biome is characterized by high temperatures and rainfall?
Tropical rainforest
The squirrel and the blue jay both eat nuts from the oak tree, but the blue jay eats the nuts higher up and the squirrel eats the nuts that fall to the ground. What type of interaction is this?
resource partitioning
Which city would you expect to be warmer year round?
a. City at 12 degrees latitude
b. City at 86 degrees latitude
a. City at 12 degrees latitude
What is one similarity between the carbon and water cycles? (Do NOT say they're both cycles)
many correct answers
Which plate boundary caused the sierra nevada mountains?
Convergent
If the NPP of an ecosystem is 300g and the GPP is 1000g, how much glucose is used for respiration?
700g
a different role a species fills in an ecosystem
During which month(s) is the northern hemisphere tilted toward the sun?
June, July
Which cycle contains chemical changes?
carbon cycle
What causes the tectonic plates to shift?
Heat from the core causing convection in the mantle. When the mantle moves around, the plates move around with it
If producers in an ecosystem make 3,500kj of energy, how much makes it to the secondary consumers?
35kj
Ticks latch onto a human and feed off their blood. What kind of interaction is this?
Parasitism