Equations
What percentage of energy is passed to the next energy level
What is 10%
process that helps water reach the atmosphere
What is evaporation?
What law ensures safe drinking water by the Environmental Protection Agency
What is the Safe Drinking Water Act?
A system of interlocking foodchains
What is a foodweb?
The process that leads to algal blooms
What is eutrophication?
The equation for NPP
What is NPP-GPP=Respiration
The substance that forms igneous rocks
What is magma?
How the second law of thermodynamics applies to trophic levels
What is the 10% rule?
Non-living faactor in an enviroment
What is an abiotic factor?
The compound that can be produced by lightning
What are nitrates?
The equation for Photosynthesis
What is 6C02+6H20=C6H12O6+602
The major role the ocean plays in the carbon cycle
What is a carbon sink?
What federal law sets the standards for six common air pollutants
What is the Clean Air Act?
Dead organic matter
What is Detritus?
The organisms that assist in nutrient cycling and decomposition
What are microbes?
The equation for Cellular Respiration
What is C6H12O6=6C02+6H2O+ATP
The cycle that contains the element always in the same polyatomic ion
What is the nitrogen cycle?
The law states that energy is always being used up and degraded for useful work.
What is the second law of thermodynamics?
The process where plants release water vapor into the atmosphere
What is transpiration?
The organisms that contain the largest number of species on the planet
What are insects?
The GPP if the NPP is 1,078 and the respiration is 643
What is 1,721
The cycle that is involved in protein structure.
What law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
The term that refers to the time period since the last major ice age
What is holocene?
A main banned pesticide in the United States
What is DDT?