Food Web and Chain
The source of all plants's energy
The Sun
What is the carbon cycle?
The process by which carbon moves through the air, water, and land.
What is Nitrogen cycle
a biogeochemical process through which nitrogen is converted into many forms, passing from the atmosphere to the soil to organism and back into the atmosphere.
What is water cycle
The continuous movement of water within the Earth
Name a type of decomposer
Bacteria and Fungi and worms
What is the primary driver of the carbon cycle?
Photosynthesis
why do living things need nitrogen
What is evaporation
The process of turning from liquid water into vapour
What is the difference between food webs and food chains?
Food webs show the connections between different animals in an ecosystem
Food chains are a single line where an animal eats another
When a forest fire happens in the forest where does all the carbon go?
Atmosphere
what are 2 ways that atmospheric nitrogen gets into the ground?
lighting and nitrogen fixation
what is a liquid form of precipitation
They mainly eat dead or sick animals. In other words a scavenger
How does the human body return carbon to the atmosphere in the carbon cycle?
Cellular respiration
what percent of the air is nitrogen
79%
what is a solid form of precipitation
snow
What is a heterotroph
An organism that cannot produce its own food and takes food from other sources
Where carbon is stored temporarily
Carbon Sink (anything that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases).
how is extra nitrogen getting into bays and river ecosystems
fertiliser and sewage runoff
Name 5 sources of water that are in the water cycle
groundwater, precipitation, glaciers, icebergs, oceans