Additional Material Flashcards
___ refers to use chemical energy.
Chemosynthesis
Autotrophs use ___ as a source of carbon and ___ for synthesis of organic matter.
CO2
Inorganic nitrogen
___ cannot synthesize their own food and rely on other organisms.
Heterotrophs
Heterotrophs require ___ as a source of energy.
Complex organic carbon compounds
Heterotophs require ___ for metabolic synthesis.
Carbon
To live, all cells need ___ and ___.
Energy
Carbon
___ is supplied through the processing of nutrients.
Energy
___ is for the synthesis of organic compounds (growth, reproduction).
Carbon
Increasing CO2 in the atmosphere causes ocean pH to ____.
Increase/Decrease
Decrease
Which of the following is not true about prokaryotic organisms?
A. They lack a cell nucleus
B. They lack a cell wall
C. They maintain their genome in a single copy, using a single DNA chromosome.
D. They have evolved throughout geologic time.
B
___ has a great influence over the distribution of biomes.
Climate
An ___ is an organism that uses CO2 as a source of carbon for growth.
Autotroph
___ is the net amount of organic matter produced by photosynthesis per unit time in a defined area.
Net primary production
___ runoff from farms can increase photosynthesis by other organisms in aquatic ecosystems.
Fertilizer
___ increases respiration rates, and in cases where respiration uses up all the dissolved oxygen present, this leads to dead zones.
Eutrophication
