Bio Lab 8 Flashcards

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1
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The natural world is connected globally through what two ingredients

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Biotic (living) and abiotic (nonliving)

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2
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Ecosystem definition

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Community and the environment in which interactions take place between biotic and abiotic elements

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3
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Knowledge of what to processes will minimize damage of ecosystems due to humans

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Chemical cycling and energy flow

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4
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Chemical cycling is the

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Recycling of our planets chemicald

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5
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Humans and all living organisms are what based life forms

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Carbon

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6
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How are carbon compounds formed

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Photosynthesis

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7
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Primary producers

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Photosynthesizing organisms able to trap light energy from sun

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8
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Process of photosynthesis

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Carbon dioxide and water

Equals

Sugars and oxygen

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What do plants use the sugars from photosynthesis for

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Energy for growth and building chemical compounds

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10
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Energy flow

Multiple levels called

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The transfer of energy from one living organism to another

Tropic levels

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11
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The greater number of ? Ina. Food chain the greater the ?

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Interactions

Stability

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12
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What do we need primary producers for

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Oxygen and carbon atoms

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13
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How do decomposer derive energy

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From biological organic molecules encountered in waste from producers or consumers or debris of dead organisms

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14
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What percent of stored chemical energy is present in next highest level

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Only 10

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15
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Most energy available is at what level ?

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Producer

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16
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Cellular respiration process

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Sugar plus oxygen into carbon dioxide water and energy

17
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The carbon dioxide released by respiration goes back into

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Atmosphere and used again for photosynthesis =carbon cycle

18
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Explain carbon cycle

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Carbon from atmosphere passes to plants then animals and back to atmosphere

19
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What is the final source of carbon dioxide

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Dead or plant matter broken down in respiration by decomposer a or detritivores

20
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What problems can occur if input and output not balanced in carbon cycle

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Excess CO2 which is contributor to global climate change

21
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What mineral nutrients do plants need

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Nitrate and phosphate

22
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What are phosphates needed for

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To make DNA and phospholipid bilayer

23
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Phosphates come from

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Weathering of rocks and decay of plant and animal matter

24
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Nitrates are used in making

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Proteins

25
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Nitrogen gas makes up what percent of earths armosphere

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80

26
Q

What have disastrous effects on aquatic systems

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Nitrate fertilizers used on farms and lawns

27
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What happens when nitrates runoff

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Excessive aquatic plant growth provides food for drifting animals they multiply more than what environment can sustain. Waste and dead algae makes decomposer a deplete oxygen

28
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Algae classify them

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Multi/uni
Plant like but more similar to Protista
Eukaryotic