Biogeochemistry

Question 1

What is a pool?

Answer 1

A specific place you would find a compound

Question 2

What is a flux?

Answer 2

A process which compounds move between two pools
(EX: photosynthesis)

Question 3

What is the keeling curve?

Answer 3

The rise and fall of atmospheric CO2 levels produces by respiration and used by photosynthesis

Question 4

What ecosystem greatly contributes unequally to the atmospheric CO2 levels?

Answer 4

The boreal forest
-highly productive
-highly seasonal
-uneven in two hemispheres

Question 5

What is the largest pool in the global hydrologic cycle?

Answer 5

Ocean

Question 6

What is the largest flux in the global hydrologic cycle?

Answer 6

Evaporation

Question 7

What is the largest pool in the global nitrogen cycle?

Answer 7

Atmosphere

Question 8

What is the largest flux in the global nitrogen cycle?

Answer 8

Both marine biomass and dissolved nitrogen in ocean water

Question 9

What is the whale pump?

Answer 9

What consumes deep below the surface and poops at the surface which contains a lot of nitrogen released in the ocean

Question 10

What is a dead zone?

Answer 10

An body of water where there is no oxygen leading to the suffocation of many organisms

Question 11

What is the possible impact of a dead zone?

Answer 11

Not only death but also mutations infertility and development