Water Cycle
What percent of the earth is covered in water ?
70%
What is a Abiotic factor ?
Non living things of the environment
What are producers ?
organisms that produce for themselves
Are all living things made up of carbon ?
Yes
Nitrogen has a strong odor. True or False ?
False. Nitrogen is odorless
What is run off ?
Precipitation that moves on the surface towards stream instead of soaking in the soil
What is a biotic factor ?
Living things of the environment
What are consumers ?
Organisms that eat other organisms to get energy
What is carbon called when in air ?
Carbon Dioxide
What color is nitrogen ?
Nothing, Nitrogen is completely colorless
What is transpiration ?
What is a habitat ?
Physical environment that a species lives in
What are decomposers ?
Organisms that break down waste and return it to the ecosystem
Whats the process of plants using carbon dioxide to make sugars called?
Photosynthesis
Plants absorb _____ directly from the soil
Nitrogen
What are the four stages of the water cycle ?
Evaporation, convection, precipitation, and collection
What is a organism ?
Anything living
What happens to the 90% energy not passed to the next trophic levels
Metabolic processes and/or lost as heat
Carbon forms more compounds than all the other elements combined. True or False ?
True
Nitrogen is flammable and explosive. T or False
False, Nitrogen is neither
When water evaporates it condenses to form clouds through a process called what ?
Condensation
What is a Niche ?
The role of an organism in its ecosystem
Whats the highest level on the food pyramid called ?
Quaternary Consumers
Carbon helps to regulate the Earth's temperature. True or False ?
True
When special bacteria returns extra nitrogen from the soil into the air is called what ?
Denitrification