Back to basics
Interesting weather we're having/climate we've had!
Deja-YEW, biomes edition!
One Direction, but not the band
You matter!
100
Give an example of a biotic factor.
Is your factor living?
100
Name an abiotic factor that can affect a biome's climate.
What is...?
precipitation, temperature, humidity, soil composition, bodies of water, terrain, wind, etc.
100
The biome that has a layer of permafrost.
What is the tundra?
100
Primary producers can collect energy from these two processes.
What are photosynthesis and chemosynthesis?
100
These are the four biogeochemical cycles we learned in class.
What are the carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, phosphorus cycle, and water cycle?
200
The scientific study of interactions among species, other species, and their environment.
What is ecology?
200
Name the month that has the highest precipitation.
What is December?
200
Biomes closer to the equator typically have _________ temperatures than those that are further away.
What is higher/warmer/hotter?
200
A food web can contain several food chains. True or false?
What is true?
200
This is the element that is present in all biogeochemical cycles.
What is oxygen?
300
Name a way humans negatively impact the ecosystem.
What are a variety of horrid things we do?
300
Describe the difference between weather and climate.
What is that weather is a daily change while climate is an average of weather over time.
300
Name a biome that showcases long, cold winters and forests with pines and other coniferous trees.
What is a taiga/boreal forest?
300
True or false: Energy cycles through an ecosystem while matter moves in a one-time, one-direction flow.
What is false? Energy flows in one direction and matter cycles through!
300
Breathing out carbon dioxide is this type of process.
Bonus if you can name both!
What is a biological process and/or an atmospheric process?
400
These are Earth's four global systems.
What are the hydrosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, geosphere.
400
This is the reason we have global ocean currents.
What is global wind?
400
Name four biomes.
Why are your answers all different, now I have to think :(
400
Each step in a food chain, food web, or energy pyramid is called this.
What is a trophic level?
400
Name the 4 processes we discussed in the water cycle.
What are..?: Evaporation
Transpiration
Run-off
Precipitation
500
Give a reason why estuaries are important.
nursery for eggs/young
Shallow
salt/freshwater
commercially valuable
plant roots/limbs for homes.
500
This is the effect that greenhouse gases have on Earth's global temperature and why.
What is that greenhouse gases increase Earth's global temperature because they lock in thermal energy from the sun and reradiate heat?
500
Name the 3 characteristics that group ecosystems into a biome.
What are similar climate, similar precipitation, and similar biotic factors?
500
This is the percent of energy that is transferred to the next organism in a food chain.
Bonus: Tell me what happens to the excess energy.
What is 10%?
What is it is used by the animal or lost as heat?
500
Describe the difference between nitrogen fixation and denitrification?
Bonus: Why is nitrogen fixation important?
What is: nitrogen fixation breaks down nitrogen gas into usable pieces. Denitrification uses these little pieces to make nitrogen gas.
Bonus: it turns an unusable form of nitrogen into a usable form!