Biogeochemical cycle
State 3 human activities that affect biogeochemical cycles.
Ex: Burning fossils, agriculture, urbanization.
State two examples of carbon reservoirs (stores)
Animals, plants, soil, ocean, atmosphere, etc...
Define the difference between climate and weather. Give an example of each one.
Weather: Short term condition.
Climate: Long term, seasonal patterns.
Ex: rain and tropical climate
True or false: Oceans absorb radiation
True: oceans distribute heat.
What are the 3 types of forests?
Tropical forest, temperate decidious and boreal forest.
Explain how deforestation affect the carbon cycle.
Deforestation disrupts the carbon cycle by converting forests from carbon sinks into carbon sources.
Mention 2 examples of carbon flow in a diagram
Ex: combustion, respiration, cellular respiration, decomposition, feeding, defecating, etc.
State the correct word (terminology) for the action of rain in ESS
Precipitation.
Name at least two effects of climate change in biomes.
Biome shifting, climate change (inside the biome), migration pattern changes, nutrient cycle changes.
What are the 4 aquatic biomes?
Lakes, ponds, rivers and wetlands.
What is the hydrological cycle? Give examples of how it flow.
The continuous movement of water on, above, and below Earth's surface, driven by solar energy and gravity.
Ex of flow: traspiration, evaporation or condensation.
Define carbon sequestration
Process of capturing gaseous and atmospheric CO2 and storing it. Exam tip: it could be liquid or solid.
What's the name for the days when seasons change? Hint: This occurs 4 times during the year, but there are only two answers to this question.
Equinox and Soltice
Secret question (for 300 extra points): Which specific day occurs an equinox or a soltice?
Name the 4 main types of terrestrial biomes.
Forest, grassland, desert, tundra.
True or false: Tropical rainforest is the biome with the highest productivity.
Extra 100 point: define productivity.
False
Extra 300 points: Which biome have highest productivity? Hint: is not terrestrial, not at all.
Define biogeochemical cycle
Natural processes that ciruclate the chemical elements for life...
Mention an example of a sink and a source.
Sink: soil
Source: combustion
State the name of the system to ubicate a region based on the equator and the poles.
State the name to the system to ubicate the height of a region based on the sea level.
Extra: 200 extra points if you state the units to measure them.
Latitude and Altitude.
Extra: degrees and feets (or meters).
Draw the Earth including equator, tropics, poles, the axis (with axial tilt)
Good luck broski
Fun fact: axial tilt is equal to 23 degrees (this provokes phenomenom such as the midnight sun)
What amount of precipitation (in mms) is consider not enough to life or an abiotic factor that reduce biodiversity and productivity?
Hint: same amount of precipitation in a desert.
Less than 250 mm.
Tip: remeber that both poles are also deserts, because of the low precipitation.
Which are the 3 types of biogeochemical cycles?
Carbon, nitrohen and hydrological (water)
Explain the difference between a sink and a source (in biogechemical cycles or ecosystems)
A sink have a high input of an element and a low output of it. A source have a low input of an element and a high output of it.
State the name to the visual representantion for the climate of a biome or region and the 2 main variables needed to create it.
Climograph.
Precipitation and temeperature.
Explanation: this are the main abiotic factors that generate a specific climate (temperature and humidity).
Name the 3 cells that made up the atmosphere system.
Double your point if you draw the wind current system and label each of them
Polar, Farrel and Hadley cell.
Mention the abiotic factors of a tropical rainforest (precipitation, temperature, humidity, latitude)
2000-5000mm, temp 20-30C, 23 *simboleishon de grado*, high humidity)