Cycles
This cycle includes the process of transpiration.
What is the water cycle?
This biome is characterized by low rainfall, extreme temperatures, and plants like cacti.
What is the desert?
These organisms make their own food through photosynthesis and form the base of all food chains.
What are producers?
This term refers to a testable prediction often used in environmental studies
What is a hypothesis?
This cycle takes the longest to complete.
What is the phosphorus cycle?
This large aquatic biome is salty and covers over 70% of Earth’s surface.
What is the ocean?
These organisms eat producers and are found on the second trophic level.
What are primary consumers?
This nonrenewable energy source is the most widely used for electricity generation in the U.S.
What is coal?
The process when bacteria converts organic matter into ammonia.
What is ammonization?
This coastal aquatic biome is a breeding ground for many species and is characterized by brackish water.
What is an Estuary?
This term describes the amount of energy passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10% rule?
The maximum number of individuals an environment can sustainably support over time is known as this
What is carrying capacity?
This term describes the long-term storage of carbon in underground fossil fuels.
What is carbon sequestration
This grassland is found approximately 20 degrees North of the equator.
What is the savanna?
These organisms break down dead organic matter and return nutrients to the environment.
What are decomposers?
This 1970 U.S. law created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
What is the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
This environmental issue occurs when excess phosphorus leads to algal blooms and oxygen depletion.
What is eutrophication?
This dark, cold layer of the ocean lies below the photic zone and supports deep-sea organisms.
What is the aphotic zone?
This term refers to the total mass of living organisms at each trophic level, which typically decreases as you move up the energy pyramid.
What is biomass?
This international agreement was created to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and limit global warming
What is the Paris agreement?