Chapters 20.1+20.2

Question 1

Gasses in the Earth that trap heat.

Answer 1

Greenhouse Gas

Question 2

This states that each trophic level can only give 10% to the next level.

Answer 2

10% Rule

Question 3

A community of living organisms and their nonliving environment.

Answer 3

Ecosystem

Question 4

A large-scale community of organisms, primarily defined, on land, by the dominant plant types that exist in geographic regions of the planet with similar climatic conditions. (tropical rainforests, savannas, deserts, grasslands, temperate forests, and tundras)

Answer 4

Biome

Question 5

The state of an ecosystem where despite changes in specie numbers, biodiversity remains somewhat constant.

Answer 5

Equilibrium

Question 6

The ability is an ecosystem to remain at equilibrium in spite of disturbances.

Answer 6

Resistance

Question 7

The speed at which an ecosystem recovers equilibrium after being disturbed.

Answer 7

Resilience

Question 8

A linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another. (producers, primary consumers, higher-level consumers, and decomposers)

Answer 8

Food Chain

Question 9

A concept that accounts for the multiple trophic feeding interactions between each species and the many species it may feed on, or that feed on it.

Answer 9

Food Web

Question 10

An animal’s position in a food chain or web. (energy level)

Answer 10

Trophic Level

Question 11

The base or foundation of a food web/chain that are photoautotrophs

Answer 11

Producers

Question 12

The organisms that eat producers.

Answer 12

Primary Consumer

Question 13

The organisms that eat primary consumers, usually carnivores.

Answer 13

Secondary Consumer

Question 14

The organisms that eat secondary consumers, carnivores that eat carnivores.

Answer 14

Tertiary Consumer

Question 15

The organisms that eat tertiary consumers, top of the food chain.

Answer 15

Quaternary Consumer

Question 16

Organisms capable of synthesizing their own food, harnesses light or chemical energy.

Answer 16

Autotroph

Question 17

The rate at which photosynthetic producers incorporate energy from the Sun

Answer 17

Gross Primary Productivity

Question 18

The energy that remains in the producers after accounting for its respiration and heat loss.

Answer 18

Net Primary Productivity

Question 19

The increasing concentration of persistent, toxic substances in organisms at each successive trophic level. These are substances that are stored in the fat.

Answer 19

Biomagnification

Question 20

The process of recycling inorganic matter between living organisms and their nonliving environment

Answer 20

Biogeochemical Cycle

Question 21

The six most common elements of life. (carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur)

Answer 21

CHNOPS

Question 22

The area of Earth where water movement and storage occurs.

Answer 22

Hydrosphere

Question 23

The constant movement of water on Earth.

Answer 23

Water Cycle

Question 24

The process of a liquid turning into a gas.

Answer 24

Evaporation

Question 25

The process of a gas forming small droplets and becoming liquid.

Answer 25

Condensation

Question 26

When atmospheric water vapor condenses and falls from the clouds.

Answer 26

Precipitation

Question 27

When water flows over land as surface water instead of being absorbed into groundwater or evaporating.

Answer 27

Run-off

Question 28

The constant movement of carbon on Earth.

Answer 28

Carbon Cycle

Question 29

A thing that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases

Answer 29

Carbon Sink

Question 30

A place where carbon is stored. (soil, fossil fuels, limestone.)

Answer 30

Carbon Store

Question 31

Something that releases carbon into the atmosphere. (burning of fossil fuels, deforestation and volcanic eruptions)

Answer 31

Carbon Source

Question 32

The constant movement of nitrogen on Earth.

Answer 32

Nitrogen Cycle

Question 33

When nutrient runoff causes overgrowth of algae.

Answer 33

Eutrophication

Question 34

The constant movement of Phosphorus on Earth.

Answer 34

Phosphorus Cycle

Question 35

The constant movement of Sulfur on Earth.

Answer 35

Sulfur Cycle