Carbon in the Global Ecosystem
What are three fossil fuels?
What is Coal, Oil, and Gas.
Who is the leading producer of Mulberry trees?
What is China.
How heavy is whale flesh in kilograms AND pounds?
What is 181,000 kilograms or 400,000 pounds
How is energy transferred?
What is energy is transferred from hot to cold
What are producers?
What is an organism that makes its own ESM (Specifically Glucose).
If carbon increases somewhere in the world it must
What is decrease somewhere else
Who are the Mulberry trees consumers?
Who are silk worms and humans.
How much bacteria is in a teaspoon?
What is 1 billion
What is an organelle?
What is the term for special cell parts that perform important functions for a cell
What is photosynthesis ?
What is the process by which plants and other producers use energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and glucose (ESM).
True or false: The earth is a closed ecosystem.
True
What do producers use the extra ESM for?
What is as building blocks to make their stems, leaves, roots and other parts?
What does mold decompose?
What is fruits and bread
What is glucose made out of?
What is Hydrogen, Oxygen, and Carbon
What is Mitochondrion?
What is the part of a cell where cellular respiration happens.
What does increased Co2 cause?
What is global temperatures to rise, makes ocean water more acidic, and changes weather patterns.
Why do they create ESM?
So they can grow and reproduce by releasing ESM through Cellular respiration.
What are the main decomposers in a forest's ecosystem?
What is wood-decay fungi
What is the process of cellular respiration?
What is the chemical reaction between oxygen and glucose that releases energy into cells
What is the Troposphere?
What is the layer of atmosphere closest to earth, where weather happens.
What actions use energy from fossil fuels?
What is when we use a cell phone, drive a car, heat our home, or turn on the lights.
How is the mulberry tree used in China?
What is an important food source for the growing silkworms
What is lignin?
What is a substance found in wood
How many degrees is the minimum for pasteurization?
What is 65 degrees celsius
What is sublimation?
What is the process which a solid changes directly into a gas