Water Cycle
What is the ocean?
A type of sugar that plants make during photosynthesis
What is glucose?
An organism that breaks down organic material
What is a decomposer?
A chemical element that is in all forms of life
What is carbon?
The tool used to see a small object up close with all its detail
The process that turns water into vapor
What is evaporation?
The male gametophyte
What is an gymnosperm?
An animal so important to it's ecosystem that it would fail without that species
What is a keystone species?
What are the atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere, and hydrosphere?
What is a greenhouse?
The process of water turning from gas to liquid
What is condesation?
Angiosperm that contains one or more matured ovaries
What is a fruit?
A way to map out which animals eat which in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
What is a carbon sink?
The river we studied that is super dirty
What is the Klamath?
Water returning to the surface of Earth as rain or snow
What is precipitation?
Leaf pores that plants take in CO2 from
What is a stomata?
The overall amount of living material at each level of the trophic pyramid
What is biomass?
The process where carbon leaves plants
What is cellular respiration?
Something in an ecosystem that isn't living
What is an abiotic factor?
Precipitation or runoff that seeps underground, recharging aquifers.
What is percolation?
The light absorbing pigment molecule found inside chloroplasts
What is chlorophyll?
Organisms that feed themselves and organisms that need to feed on others
What are autotrophs and heterotrophs?
Something that emits more carbon than it stores
What is a carbon source?
Who is Megatron?