Feel the Energy
CO2 and water are used to produce glucose and light energy in this biochemical reaction
What is Photosynthesis?
This trophic level provides chemical energy for the rest of the food web
What are producers (1st trophic level)?
The bond formed between water molecules due to water’s polarity
What are Hydrogen Bonds?
The ocean and the amazon rainforest are two examples of this
What is Carbon Sink?
This term describes the rate at which an ecosystem’s producers capture and store energy over a length of time (J/m2/a)
What is Productivity
The approximate albedo of the earth
What is 30%
What the arrows represent in a food web
What is direction of energy transfer?
The name for water created through cellular processes
What is metabolic water?
The method by which nitrogen leaves the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen Fixation?
One of the least productive ecosystems in the biosphere in terms of average net productivity
What is the Open Ocean?
The process done by some producers in the absence of sunlight
What is Chemosynthesis?
A true carnivore in food webs that receives the least amount of energy
What is Tertiary Consumer?
Water can travel up the xylem of plants thanks to these two qualities
What are Cohesion and Adhesion?
Type of Carbon storage sites where nutrients are available and move through living or recently living organisms
What are Biotic Components Available as Nutrients?
Algal bloom can result in these areas known for their lack of oxygen
What are Dead Zones
These can go anywhere on food webs and gains energy from producers and consumers
What are Decomposers?
The only ecological pyramid that cannot be inverted
What is Pyramid of Energy?
The measure of the amount of heat energy a substance can absorb or release for a given change in temperature
What is Heat Capacity?
Bacteria play a vital role in these two cycles
What are the Sulfur and Nitrogen Cycles?
The hypothesis that suggests that the biosphere acts like an organism
What is the Gaia Hypothesis?
This molecule is necessary for both photosynthesis and chemosynthesis
What is CO2 or O2?
If organisms on a lower trophic level decrease, organisms on the next highest trophic level will generally do this
What is Decrease?
This allows small insects and basilisks to “walk” on water
What is Surface Tension?
The name of the process that results in nitrate
What is Nitrification?
Scientists discovered bands of this in stromatolites, which suggests the presence of dissolved oxygen in oceans
What are Iron Oxides?