Cycles
What are the four nutrients that cycle the biosphere?
What is carbon, nitrogen, water, and phosphorus
What are the four categories of organisms in a food web?
producer
primary consumer
secondary consumer
Tertiary consumer
What are the gases that make up greenhouse gases?
Ozone
Methane
Carbon Dioxide
Nitrous oxide
What is the smallest animal on earth?
Etruscan shrew (36-55mm)
Organism that only eats producers
Herbivore
Which cycle includes soil, animal wastes, bacteria, fixation and plant use?
Nitrogen
Responsible for breaking down dead organic matter
decomposers
long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
climate change
What days are your final exams next week?
Tuesday & Thursday
Two chemical reactions essential to sustain life
photosynthesis
cellular respiration
What are the three main stages of the water cycle?
Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
*transpiration * bonus
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain outlines who eats whom. A food web is all of the food chains in an ecosystem
An increase in the average temperature of earth's surface
Global warming
What is the oldest Disney movie?
What are algae blooms?
excess nitrogen results in a rapid increase or accumulation in the population of algae . Restricts sunlight from deep water organisms resulting in death of plants = increases decomposers = use up all oxygen =kills aquatic ecosystems
this nutrient helps plants by promoting root growth
What is Nitrogen
What percentage of energy is transferred between each trophic level?
What is 10%
What are three effects of increased temperature?
Land and sea ice melt, coastal flooding, warmer sea absorbs co2, coral reefs and aquatic ecosystems are harmed, extreme weather events
How far apart do earths tectonic plates move each year?
What is 2.5cm
Process by which water is absorbed by roots of plants, carried through the plant and lost as water vapour through small pores in the leaves
Transpiration
is an essential nutrient for sustaining life on Earth, where it plays a central role in the transfer of energy within organisms, the structure of the genetic material, and in the composition of cell membranes, bones and teeth.
what is Phosphorus
What is the name for organisms at the top of the food chain?
Tertiary consumers
Who led the documentary about climate change?
Leonardo Dicaprio
What college did Ms. Valoma and Ms. Wessa go to together?!
Douglas College
two ways carbon is released into the atmosphere
Cellular respiration, burning fossil fuels, burning forest