Earth Systems

Question 1

Abiotic

Answer 1

Non-living things in the environment

Question 2

Atmosphere

Answer 2

Envelope of gases that surrounds earth

Question 3

Bio

Answer 3

Life

Question 4

Biosphere

Answer 4

Sum of all ecosystems on earth

Question 5

Biotic

Answer 5

Anything living

Question 6

Crust

Answer 6

is 20 to 80km thick.
Made up of valleys, trenches, mountains, and volcanos.
Composed of tectonic plates.

Question 7

Cryosphere

Answer 7

Solid form of water

Question 8

Greenhouse gas

Answer 8

Gases on earth

Question 9

Groundwater

Answer 9

Water found underground

Question 10

Lithosphere

Answer 10

• The lithosphere is the solid, outer part of the earth, including the crust and upper mantle.

Question 11

Mesosphere

Answer 11

Where meteors are found

Question 12

Salinity

Answer 12

Amount of salt in water

Question 13

Stratosphere

Answer 13

Composed of ozone

Question 14

Tectonic plate

Answer 14

Large sections of the Earth’s crust that shifts over time.
Molten rock in the upper mantle flows, moving plates slowly.
This has changed land masses over millions of years.

Question 15

Turbidity

Answer 15

the quality of being cloudy, opaque, or thick with suspended matter:

Question 16

Thermosphere

Answer 16

Where satellites and space shuttles are found.

Question 17

Tropossphere

Answer 17

composed of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide

Question 18

Upper mantle

Answer 18

Extends from below the crust to 410km towards the earth’s core.
Composed of mostly silicon, oxygen, magnesium, and iron.
Mostly molten and flowing

Question 19

Water vapour

Answer 19

Gas form of water

Question 20

Food chain

Answer 20

Shows the movement of energy from one trophic level to another.

Question 21

Food web

Answer 21

Show the movement of energy and many interactions within an ecosystem.

Question 22

Herbivore

Answer 22

Only eats plants.

Question 22

Carnivore

Answer 22

Only eats meat.

Question 23

Omnivore

Answer 23

Eats plants and meat.

Question 24

Producer

Answer 24

Creates its own energy.

Question 25

Consumer

Answer 25

Needs to consume/eat other consumers and producers to create energy.

Question 26

Trophic level

Answer 26

The level an organism is found on a food web/chain.

Question 27

Decomposer

Answer 27

Responsible for breaking down dead/decaying organisms and returning nutrients to eco-system.

Question 28

Primary Consumer

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Eats producer

Question 29

Secondary Consumer

Answer 29

Eats primary consumer

Question 30

Tertiary Consumer

Answer 30

Eats secondary consumer

Question 31

Quanternary Consumer

Answer 31

Eats teritary consumer

Question 32

Ecological pyramid

Answer 32

Pyramids that measure things in an ecosystem.

Question 33

Energy pyramid

Answer 33

A pyramid from smallest to largest amount of energy.

Question 34

Pyramid of numbers

Answer 34

A pyramid from smallest to largest with the number of numbers in the ecosystem.

Question 35

Biomass

Answer 35

The amount of mass something has.

Question 36

Biomass pyramid

Answer 36

The amount of biomass in an ecosystem from smallest to largest.

Question 37

10% rule

Answer 37

10 percent of energy is transferred between trophic levels.

Question 38

Germination

Answer 38

The process of a seed becoming a plant.