Carbon Cycle
This gas is released into the atmosphere when organisms breathe.
What is carbon dioxide?
This process turns liquid water into water vapor using heat from the Sun.
What is the evaporation?
Also known as autotrophs, these organisms sit at the very bottom of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
This form of precipitation occurs when water droplets freeze and fall as ice pellets.
What is sleet
These "self-feeders" use the Water Cycle and Carbon Cycle to kickstart the food web.
What are autotrophs?
Plants use carbon dioxide during this process to make food.
What is photosynthesis?
Clouds form during this process when water vapor cools and changes back into liquid droplets.
What is condensation?
This is the approximate percentage of energy that is actually passed from one trophic level to the next.
What is 10%
This term refers to water that flows over the land surface into rivers and lakes rather than soaking into the ground.
What is runoff
This gas, vital to the Carbon Cycle, is also a "greenhouse gas" that can increase evaporation in the Water Cycle.
What is carbondioxide
This process returns carbon to the atmosphere when organisms break down food for energy.
What is cellular respiration?
This process releases water vapor into the air from plant leaves.
What is Transpiration?
Unlike a simple food chain, this overlapping diagram shows all the interconnected feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web
Where is water vapor found?
What is all around you or similar answer (everywhere)
In an energy pyramid, this group of organisms always occupies the second level because they consume autotrophs
What are secondary consumers (herbivores)
Burning________ adds carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
What is fossil fuels
From where does most water evaporate?
What is the Ocean
This type of consumer eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?
What are the drops of water that form on cool surfaces during the night called?
What is dew
While energy flows in one direction through a pyramid, these two "cycles" involve matter being reused indefinitely.
What are Biogeochemical Cycles? (Carbon & Water Cycle)
Coal, oil, and natural gas are examples of these long-term carbon storage materials.
What is Fossil Fuels?
This cycle moves matter but not energy through Earth’s systems.
What is The Water Cycle?
Energy that is not passed to the next level is primarily lost to the environment in this form.
Heat
his process moves water from Earth’s surface into the atmosphere and is driven by solar energy.
What is evaporation
In a food web, the apex predator is often referred to as the ____________ consumer. What percentage of energy would they receive?
What is tertiary, 0.1%