Biosphere
A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
What is an ecosystem?
True or False: Cellular respiration occurs only in plants.
False.
An organism capable of making its own food.
What is a producer?
A rapid increase in the population of algae in an aquatic system.
What is an algae bloom?
An organelle found in plant cells which conducts photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
Occupies 75% of the Earth's surface area.
What are aquatic biomes?
Glucose and oxygen are the _____ of cellular respiration.
What are the inputs?
An organism that obtains food by generally feeding off of other organisms.
What is a consumer?
A gas that absorbs infrared radiation, and radiates heat in all directions.
What is a greenhouse gas?
Carbon dioxide, light, and water are the ______ of photosynthesis.
What are in the inputs?
These are the main five aquatic biomes occupying Earth's surface area.
What are coastal water, deep ocean, freshwater, intertidal, and open ocean.
The ____________ takes in nutrients from the cell, breaks it down, and turns it into energy.
What is the mitochondria?
An organism that consumes animal and plant materials.
What is an omnivore?
Reducing water waste, powering your home with renewable resources, and driving a fuel-efficient vehicle are solutions to this cause.
What is climate change?
True or False: Photosynthesis occurs only in plants.
True.
The largest rain forest in the world, covering more than 5.5 million km².
What is the Amazon Rain-forest?
Carbon-dioxide and water are the _______ of cellular respiration.
What are the outputs?
Rabbits are an example of an organism on the _______ _________ level.
What is the primary consumer level?
The process in which radiation from a planet's atmosphere warms the planet's surface to a temperature above what it would be without the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect?
Glucose sugar and oxygen are the _______ of photosynthesis.
What are the outputs?
This climate consists of lemon grass and antelope.
What is the savanna?
___ is able to store and transport chemical energy within the cells.
What is ATP?
A concentration of a toxin in the tissues of tolerant organisms at higher levels in the food chain
What is biomagnification?
Human activity is the main purpose of harvesting natural resources for industrial production and urbanization.
What is habitat destruction?
This cycle consists of four main steps: carbon fixation, reduction phase, carbohydrate formation, and the regeneration phase.
What is the Calvin cycle?