Questions 1-5
This was the original hypothesis of how plants grew and gained so much mass throughout their lives before the discovery of photosynthesis
What is plants "eat" soil through their roots?
Which of these is not an example of a molecule: Oxygen gas O2; Water H2O; Carbon C; or sulfur dioxide SO2?
What is Carbon?
This is the only color from the visible spectrum that plants can't use for photosynthesis
What is Visible light, Green?
Of the animals listed below, this represents a secondary consumer
Trees, Humans, Lions, Birds
What are birds?
The earth is this type of system
What is a closed system?
The tree that Jean Baptiste planted in his experiment had these two things happen
What is the tree gained a significant amount of mass and the mass of the soil decreased slightly?
This is what air is mostly made up of
What is Nitrogen?
Of the following organisms one is capable of performing photosynthesis:
Decomposing fungi; Humans; Fish or Grass
What is Grass?
In an ecosystem what would you expect the most of
What are producers?
Complete the following statement " Energy ________, while matter ___________ through the environment.
What is flows and cycles?
Which is not an example of matter: An atom of gold; A lake filled with water; the air in the atmosphere or Heat from the sun?
What is heat from the sun?
This is what Joseph Priestly discovered.
What is Oxygen?
These are the two products produced during cellular respiration
What is Water and Carbon Dioxide?
Often times this is completely not listed in a food web but is a very important part of a food web
What are decomposers?
This is where most of the mass of an adult tree comes from
What is carbon dioxide from the air?
This is where an electron is located in an atom
What is outside the nucleus?
A rollercoaster full of people stopped at the top of a large hill has a lot of this
What is potential energy?
The second law of thermodynamics states this
What is during each transformation, some energy is given off in the form of heat?
Of the ecosystems listed this one has a smaller and simpler food web
A harsh dry desert; a lush tropical rainforest; a dense broadleaf forest or a coral reef.
What is a harsh dry desert?
These three wavelengths are found in sunlight
What are Infrared, ultraviolet and visible wavelengths?
The nucleus contains only these two things
What are protons and neutrons?
Of the following wavelengths this is the smallest and most damaging to living tissues:
Microwaves; Ultraviolet; Visible or Radio
What is Ultraviolet?
Of the items listed below which is a producer
Trees, grasshoppers, Birds, Snakes
What are Trees?
If an ecosystem had 5,000 kcal worth of producers growing in it at any given time, this is how many calories that would be available to a primary consumer
What is 500 kcalories?
In addition to water there 5 other elements that there are biogeochemical cycles for
What are carbon, oxygen, sulfur, phosphorus, and nitrogen?