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Question 1

What does CFIA stand for?

Answer 1

Canadian Food Inspection Agency

Question 2

Plant kingdom (7)

Answer 2

Protozoa, plantae, fungi, animalia, bacteria, chomista, viruses?

Question 3

What is an Autotroph?

Answer 3

Primary producers - plants, phototrophs, chemoautotrophs

Question 4

What is the photosynthesis chemical equation?

Answer 4

6CO2+12H2O–>C6H12O6+6O2+6H20

Question 5

What is the reverse of photosynthesis called?

Answer 5

Cellular and oxidative respiration

Question 6

What is a heterotroph

Answer 6

Cannot produce own food - primary users

Question 7

Mouse in a bell jar experiment

Answer 7

shows that plants consume CO2 and produce O2

Question 8

What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?

Answer 8

Nitrogen

Question 9

Where is most of the earths carbon?

Answer 9

Earths crust - sedimentary rocks (99%)

Question 10

Transpiration vs evaporation

Answer 10

Transpiration is the movement of water from the roots to leaves and stem then lost to the atmosphere
evaporation is the change from liquid to gas

Question 11

What is a food chain?

Answer 11

Movement of nutrients and energy through an ecosystem

Question 12

trophic levels from bottom to top

Answer 12

Decomposers - primary producers - primary consumers - secondary consumers - tertiary consumers

Question 13

what is phytofiltrate

Answer 13

plants that filter harmful substances and stores it safely

Question 14

How do plants control erosion

Answer 14

roots hold soil and water

Question 15

What is biofuel

Answer 15

fuel derived from biomass (plants and other)

Question 16

What is biodiesel

Answer 16

produced from plant oils and animal fats which react to alcohol

Question 17

What is biogas

Answer 17

Microbes degrading organic material anaerobically
- mostly methane and CO2, compressible