Science Test Study Guide Flashcards
Biosphere
- made up of the parts of Earth where life exists.
The total amount of water on a planet.
Hydrosphere
Geosphere
includes the rocks and minerals on Earth
made of the layers of gases surrounding a planet or other celestial body.
Atmosphere
Carbon
the chemical backbone of all life on Earth.
nature’s way of reusing carbon atoms, which travel from the atmosphere into organisms in the Earth and then back into the atmosphere over and over again.
Carbon cycle
Desertification
The spread or encroachment of a desert environment into a nondesert region
farming and grazing practices that, among other benefits, reverse climate change by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded soil biodiversity
Regenerative farming
Biosequestration
assists human beings to increase their collective and individual
of or reting to life
Biotic
Abotic
a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
a large area characterized by its vegetation, soil, climate, and wildlife.
Biomes
Ecosystem
a community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment.
a land-based community of organisms and the interactions of biotic and abiotic components in a given area
Terrestrial ecosystem
Aquatic ecosystem
the habitat for water-dependent living species including animals, plants, and microbes.
a place where an organism makes its home
Habitat
Predation
a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
those that have been introduced to a country, whether deliberately or accidentally, by humans.
Nonnative/invasive species
Limiting factor
anything that constrains a population’s size and slows or stops it from growing
someone who creates and supplies goods or services
Producer-
Consumer- an individual who consumes a product or service
an individual who consumes a product or service
Decompose-
to break up into constituent parts by or as if by a chemical process
the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
Food chain-
Food Web
-a group of food chains within an ecosystem.
