Biosphere/Ecology Review
The Atmosphere (gas), Hydrosphere (water), and Geosphere (rock) all interact with this "sphere" to support life on earth.
What is the Biosphere?
This is best described as "A large region with similar climate and organisms".
What is a biome?
This is the main cause for deforestation in the Amazon Raiforest.
What is cattle ranching and agriculture?
The trapping of heat by gasses in Earth's atmosphere is known as this.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
This process is responsible for returning carbon to the atmosphere.
What is respiration?
The main source of energy for life in the biosphere begins with this.
What is the Sun?
This biome has the greatest biodiversity.
The ozone layer protects earth by doing this.
What is absorbing harmful UV radiatoin?
These activities are responsible for producing the most carbon emissions across the globe.
What is transportation and energy production?
Decomposers are responsible for this in the nutrient cycle.
What is breaking down dead organisms and recycling nutrients?
The flow of energy through the biosphere starts with this organism. Think back to your food web/chain.
What is the producer?
This biome experiences the greatest range of temperature between summer and winter.
What is the Temperate Forest?
This refers to the increase (by a multiple of 10) of toxin concentrations as they move up the food chain.
What is Biomagnification?
Global warming can have this impact on an ecosystem.
Nitrogen fixation is the process of this.
What is converting nitrogen gas into a usable form for plants?
This environment consists of both living (biotic) and abiotic (non-living) parts.
What is a ecosystem?
Coral Reefs are found in this SPECIFIC biome.
What are shallow, warm, tropical seas?
This is a resource that, once it is used up, is gone for ever. Examples include oil, natural gasses, and minerals such as coal.
What are non-renewable resources?
This individual action helps to reduce an individual's carbon footprint on Earth.
What is reducing energy/using renewable sources?
What is evaporation?
This allows for matter to cycle though the biosphere.
What are decomposers?
Wetlands provide these important functions to an ecosystem.
What is filter water and reduce flooding?
This occurs when there is an increase in algae growth due to fertilizer runoff.
What is Eutrophication?
Planting trees to absorb the Earth's Co2 levels is an example of this.
What is climate mitigation?
Phosphorus is an important nutrient because it is used to make this.
What is DNA?