Energy Cycle
Another word for a producer
Autotroph
How do humans impact the carbon cycle?
Release carbon dioxide; driving cars, burning fossil fuel, etc.
The sun heats a body of water so it turns to water vapor
Water that flows across the ground
Runoff
The amount of energy that goes from one trophic level to the next
10%
What happens to carbon during photosynthesis?
Plants take carbon in
Water falls from clouds as snow, hail, or rain
Precipitation
Type of decomposer that consumes detritus (dead leaves etc.)
Detritivore
Photoautotroph
What happens to carbon during respiration?
Plants are exhaling carbon into the atmosphere
Area where water is stored for short periods of time
Exchange pool
Decomposer that consumes anything left behind by other decomposers (final step of the food chain)
Saprotroph
Put the levels of the energy pyramid in order
(Primary consumer, tertiary consumer, secondary consumer, producer)
Producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer
Primary source of carbon in the atmosphere
Volcanic outgassing
Area where water is stored for a long time
Reservoir
Describe your renewable energy source from the project
What are the three types of decomposers?
Scavengers, detritivores, saprotrophs
How does carbon get into rocks?
WEATHERING- the carbonic acid in the ocean weathers rocks so that they become carbonated
Snow or ice turns directly to water vapor
Transpiration
Uses chemical bonds for energy
Chemoautotroph