- Over the oceans which is greater evaporation or precipitation? -- Evaporation.
- Plants take carbon out of the atmosphere by a process called------- Photosynthesis.
- Where did a tree, plant get all its mass (matter) from? ------ A small amount comes from the soil but the greatest amount of a plant's mass is converted from air.
- Name the process how a plant or tree loses its moisture? ----- Transpiration
- What drives the water cycle? ------ The Sun.
- As the water evaporates what is created over the oceans? ------ Clouds and Fog.
- Over the land, which is greater evaporation or precipitation? ----- Precipitation.
- Animals release CO2 into the atmosphere by------Breathing.
- Factories and cars release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels & nitrogen.
- Explain the water cycle in one “healthy” paragraph?
- The water cycle is the existence and movement of water on, in, and above the Earth. Earth's water is always moving and is always changing states, from liquid to vapor to ice and back again. The pattern the water moves in is the water cycle. Heat from the sun warms up water in oceans rivers and lakes. That water evaporates into vapor and as it rises it condenses into droplets that form clouds.The water in the clouds fall back to earth as rain,snow or hail and the cycle starts again.
- Identify how a limited resource can affect the size of a population. Give an example that illustrates this situation. A lack of clean ocean water can impact the population of fish that live in the ocean.
- What happens to the majority of energy as it flows from the bottom trophic level to the top of the energy pyramid? As energy moves up the energy pyramid there is less energy available. .What does it become? Some of the remaining energy is lost through respiration. While the rest of used for growth and reproduction.
- What would happen to a rainforest ecosystem if a fire killed most of its producers? There would be no food energy. The rainforest ecosystem would not survive.
- Why is the ecological pyramid smaller at the top then the bottom? In order for the population to be sustained the energy producers must outnumber the energy consumers.
Fill in the blanks by using the words below and match it with the correct sentence.
- Biological community, biome, population, commensalisms, competition, parasitism, and predation
- A large school of barracuda ---- Population.
- A desert community with arid, hot and dry conditions is called ---- Biological Community.
- All groups of organisms that interact with each other in the same region ---- Biome.
- Red-tailed hawks and black racer snakes prey on the same species of rodents in the same habitat ---Competition.
- One organism benefits, while the another is neither helped or harmed during a long term relationship between the two is called ---- Commensalism.
- A tick becomes lodged on the skin of a student in class ---- Parasitism.
- White tailed deer eat leaves ---- Predation.
- True or false: Mushrooms are producers, they obtain energy through photosynthesis. ---- False.
If YOU had to live and work and survive in a Third World Country for 1 year (YOU WERE PAID $1.50 AN HOUR!!!!) and YOU just arrived here in the United States, would you take your education more serious? Explain your response in a small paragraph.