Carbon Cycle
When CO2 is recycled between the atmosphere and ocean. Some dissolved CO2 is converted to Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) as some aquatic organisms, such as corals and oysters. When these organisms die, they form limestone.
What is Sedimentation?
The process is called this when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid water?
What is condensation?
In order to produce more profitable yields, farms use _______. The problem with this is that excess of that isn't taken up by plants can travel to oceans, lakes, and streams during precipitation event to create surface runoff
What is Nitrogen Fertilizer
About 10% of the energy is transferred from one trophic level to the next.
How much energy is typically transferred from one trophic level to the next?
What is Cellular Respiration and Photosynthesis?
The stage of the water cycle where water is absorbed by plants and released as vapor.
What is transpiration?
The process converts atmospheric nitrogen into a form usable by plants.
What is nitrogen fixation?
A food web shows multiple interconnected food chains, while a food chain is a linear sequence of who eats whom.
How does a food web differ from a food chain?
Glucose is broken down and used as macromolecules for those who do cellular respiration.
What is Assimilation?
This allows water to absorb and release large amounts of heat without significant temperature changes, which helps regulate climate and maintain stable environments for organisms.
Explain the significance of the high specific heat of water.
Plants like legume plants have a this _______ relationship whereas plants like wheat and corn require large amounts of nitrogen fertilizer to do ________.
What are Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixers?
These animals play a critical role in maintaining the structure of an ecosystem, and their removal can lead to significant changes in the environment.
How do keystone species influence their ecosystems?
Decomposers break down dead organisms, returning carbon to the soil and atmosphere.
What role do decomposers play in the carbon cycle?
Water is most dense at 4°C, causing ice to float and allowing aquatic life to thrive beneath the ice layer during winter.
What are the effects of water's density on aquatic ecosystems?
Too much nitrogen can lead to eutrophication of water bodies, causing events that which deplete oxygen levels and harm aquatic life
What are Algal Blooms?
Removing a top predator can lead to an increase in herbivore populations, which may over consume producers, disrupting the entire energy pyramid.
Two Answers Possible: Describe how energy pyramids can illustrate the impact of removing a top predator from an ecosystem.