Climate & Weather
What is Climate?
Climate is the weather in a particular location over a period of time. It is what you expect when you visit that location (ex: visiting Antarctica)
What is Ecology?
Ecology is the study of the interactions of organisms and environment.
What does Autotroph mean?
How much energy (biomass) is transfer among organisms?
10% of the previous level they ate from
Which trophic level has the most abundance of energy (biomass)?
Level 1- Producers (100%)
Give an example of weather
Tornado, Sunny, Windy, Snowing, Cold, Raining, Hot, Humid, Cloudy, Hurricane, Foggy...
What sphere does rain belong to?
Hydrosphere
What are the 3 types of Heterotrophs?
Herbivories, Carnivores, Omnivores
What are the 4 trophic levels?
Producers, Primary consumers, secondary consumers, Tertiary consumers
Organisms that eat both meat and plants are called?
Omnivores
What are Climatograms?
Climatograms are graphs that show the climate over time.
Humans are part of what sphere?
Biosphere
Why are decomposer important for the ecosystems?
They get rid of decaying matter and return it back to the soil.
What happens to the rest of the 90% of the energy that is not transferred?
Lost as heat and undigested food
Living: Frog, human, tree, Flower, Dog, Bee, Cow etc..
Give an example of climate
The climate in Antarctica, Central valley, Bay Area, Hawaii etc...
List the 4 spheres
What do the arrows show in a food web?
The transfer of energy (biomass) to the next trophic level.
What is biomass?
Biomass is any material that comes from living things, like plants or animals, and we can use it to make energy.
Give example of a food chain. Include a producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer and tertiary consumer.
producer: plant/ veggies/ fruit
primary consumer: Herbivore
secondary consumer: Carnivore eating the herbivore
tertiary consumer: Eating secondary consumer
What is caused because of the unequal heating of the Earth's surface?
Rain forest, deserts, global winds, its warmer closer to the equator and colder farther away from the equator.
Define what is Abiotic factor and give an example.
Nonliving: rock, seashell, concrete, dirt, cellphone, pencil, desk....etc
What do heterotrophs depend on?
They depend on Autotrophs for energy
(Bunnies (H) depends on carrots (A) to get their energy)
A Hawk ate a mouse with a biomass of 1000kg. How much of that energy (biomass) would the hawk get from eating the mouse?
100kg of energy (biomass) out of 1000kg energy (biomass), the rest would be lost as heat or undigested food.
What does the law of thermodynamics state?
Energy cannot be created or destroyed; Energy can only be transferred.