Part 2: The nutrient cycle in the rainforest Flashcards
1
Q
- What is nutrient cycling?
A
a. The way nutrients transfer between stores
2
Q
- What is a store?
A
a. Where nutrients are stored e.g. trees
3
Q
- What is a transfer?
A
a. How nutrients move between stores e.g. leaching
4
Q
- Which stores are there in a rainforest ecosystem?
A
a. Biomass (plants)
b. Soil
c. Litter
5
Q
a. Biomass (plants)
b. Soil
c. Litter
A
a. Precipitation
b. Fallout
c. Growth
d. Decay
e. Weathering
f. Leaching
6
Q
- What is nutrient cycling like in the rainforest?
A
a. Very fast
7
Q
- What is soil like in the rainforest?
A
a. Thin
b. Not very fertile
8
Q
- Where are most of the nutrients stored in the rainforest?
A
a. In the plants
9
Q
- Which transfer takes nutrients from the soil to the biomass?
A
a. Growth
10
Q
- Why are the nutrients in the rainforest mostly in the plants?
A
a. Plants grow fast because it is hot and wet
b. They draw nutrients from the soil all year round
11
Q
- Which transfers add nutrients added to the ecosystem?
A
a. Precipitation
b. Weathering
12
Q
- Which transfers remove nutrients from the ecosystem?
A
a. Leaching (runoff)
13
Q
- What is leaching (runoff)?
A
a. When water washes away nutrients
14
Q
- Why is there more leaching in the rainforest?
A
a. Weathering is faster in a hot, wet climate
15
Q
- How do nutrients move from plants to soil?
A
a. Fallout
b. As litter
