Natural Process
When dead organic matter were broken down and return nutrients to the soil
What is Decomposition
The most common human action that releases carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is burning of fossil fuel
Organisms that can make their own food by converting light energy to chemical energy
What is producers or autotrophs
The energy produced during cellular respiration
What is ATP
The term used for human action/cause
What is anthropogenic
When plants convert light energy to chemical energy (food making process)
What is Photosynthesis
Humans cut down trees & plants to build a structure
What is Deforestation
What is Water and CO2
The structure or organelle where respiration takes place
What is mitochondria
The most common action of humans that releases CO2 into the atmosphere
What is Burning of Fossil Fuel
When organisms releases energy and produces ATP
What is Earth
Releasing harmful substances into the air, water, and soil from waste, chemicals, and industry.
What is Pollution
The structure where photosynthesis take place
What is chloroplast
The inputs or reactants of cellular respiration
What is glucose and Oxygen gas
Cuts down trees to convert land into agriculture or business establishments
What is Deforestation
When rocks and minerals are broken down through physical or chemical means
What is Weathering
Over-extraction of non-renewable resources like fossil fuels and minerals.
What is Resource Depletion
The products or outputs of photosynthesis
What is Glucose and Oxygen Gas
What is CO2, H2O and ATP
Main greenhouse gas that is causing global warming
What is Carbon Dioxide
When plants take in nitrogen (nitrates) from the environment
What is Assimilation
Coral bleaching, shell fish, shrimp are affected due to uptake of CO2 from the atmopsphere
What is ocean acidification
The process when autotrophs stored light energy in the chemical bonds of glucose
What is Photosynthesis
The process of releasing energy from the chemical bonds of glucose and make ATP
What is cellular respiration
Due to global warming, people and other organisms are displaced
What is rising sea level