Bio Test 1 Flashcards
What chemicals lead to bioaccumulation
Pesticides
Industrial smoke stacks
Automobile emissions
Deliberate discharge of compounds into water
2 gases responsible for acid rain
sulfur dioxide
nitrogen oxides
Ecosystem definition
Where organisms live
Photosynthesis definition
the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
Cellular respiration definition
Cellular respiration is the process of breaking sugar into a form that the cell can use as energy
What are the reactants and products of cellular respiration and photosynthesis
Photosynthesis products oxygen and sugar
Photosynthesis reactants water, carbon dioxide, suns energy
Cellular respiration products water, carbon dioxide and energy
Cellular respiration reactants oxygen and sugar
Is energy absorbed or released
Photosynthesis is absorbed
Cellular respiration is released
Organisms in which reaction occurs
Photosynthesis is plants
Cellular respiration is plants and animals
Alge bloom
The increase in alge
Communities
A bunch of species together in one area
Biosphere
A land where all organisms live
Acid perception
Snow , fog, water
Substantively ecosystem
Being able to support life
