Earth's Movements/
Seasons
Seasons
The Earth is _____ on it's imaginary axis
Transfer of heat through direct contact
What is conduction?
Any living thing
An organism that can produce its own food, typically using sunlight
What is producer/autotroph?
This amount of energy is lost at each trophic level as heat, waste, or used up by the organism
What is 90%?
The angle the Earth is tilted on its axis
What is 23.5 degrees?
Transfer of heat through currents, such as in the Earth's mantle
What is convection?
All of the members of all of the species living in the same area
A heterotroph that consumes only plants
What is herbivore?
A linear pathway that shows one option of feeding relationships in an ecosystem
What is food chain?
Name the three factors of Earth's positions and movement that impact its seasons and biomes (100 pt each)
What are its tilt, rotation, and revolution?
What is the 1st law of thermodynamics?
All of the white-tailed deer that live in the same woods
What is population?
A heterotroph that consumes only animals/meat
What is carnivore?
The direction an arrow should face in a food web or food chain
What is in the direction the energy is flowing? (Aka from prey to predator)
The length of time it takes for the Earth to make one rotation around its axis
What is one day?
The 2nd law of thermodynamics. Term that describes chaos and disorder only increasing over time.
What is entropy?
Different types of ecosystems (biotic & abiotic factors of an area). Ex: desert, rainforest, tundra
What is biome?
A consumer that eats dead animals
What is scavenger?
The trophic level that consumes producers
What is primary consumer?
The Earth is constantly orbiting or revolving around the _____
What is the Sun?
Name one example of radiation
What is the sun's rays, a tanning bed, warming your hands by a bonfire, heat from a furnace warming your home, etc?
All of the places on Earth that can sustain life: surface, atmosphere, water
A consumer that feeds on dead material and returns nutrients to the soil
What is decomposer?
The trophic level with the least amount of energy
What is tertiary consumer?