Fancy name for a living thing
What is ORGANISM?
Energy for almost all food chains on Earth starts here
What is the SUN?
Main type of Greenhouse Gas
What is CARBON DIOXIDE?
Nutrient plants need for proteins
What is NITROGEN?
Where plants get all their nutrients from
What is the SOIL?
These are producers in an ecosystem
What are PRODUCERS?
Where we burn our food
What is the MITOCHONDRION?
Large amount of Carbon that stays in one place for a long time
What is a CARBON SINK?
Helps plants have strong roots
What is PHOSPHORUS?
Recovery of an ecosystem after a forest fire
What is SECONDARY SUCCESSION?
Must eat other things for food
What are HETEROTROPHS?
Where plants get their Carbon
What is CO2?
or
What is the ATMOSPHERE?
Type of energy that reduces GHG emissions
What is RENEWABLE?
Helps the immune system of a plant
What is POTASSIUM?
First species to show up in a disturbed area
What are PIONEER SPECIES?
Recycle nutrients in ecosystems
What are DECOMPOSERS?
Food trees make in photosynthesis
What is GLUCOSE?
Made from dead plants and animals millions of years ago
What are FOSSIL FUELS?
Bacteria that pull Nitrogen out of the atmosphere
What are NITROGEN FIXING BACTERIA?
Creates soil from bare rocks
What are LICHENS?
Produce their own food
What are AUTOTROPHS?
Where Photosynthesis happens
What is the CHLOROPLAST?
Gas emitted from the digestive tracts of animals and dead plant material
What is METHANE?
Type of Nitrogen living things can use
What are NITRATES?
What happens to a pond or lake when it gets too many nutrients
What is EUTROPHICATION?