Unit 15 Review

Question 1

A tertiary consumer must use all of the energy in 1 kg of food. How many kg of secondary consumers dose the tertiary consumer need to eat

Answer 1

10kg

Question 2

How much energy is lost between the tropic levels

Answer 2

90%

Question 3

Starting in the ocean what happens to water to make it be ground water

Answer 3

Evaporation, condensation, prespiration, percolation

Question 4

Starting in the ocean what happens to water to make it end up back in the atmosphere after being in a plant

Answer 4

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, percolation, transpiration

Question 5

What removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

Answer 5

Photosynthesis, carbon dioxide dissolving in water

Question 6

What adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere

Answer 6

Cellular respiration, burning fossil fuels, decomposition

Question 7

What converts nitrogen

Answer 7

Bacteria, lightning, burning fossil fuels

Question 8

Were dose phosphorus originate and what cycle helps to move it around

Answer 8

In rocks, the water cycle

Question 9

How do farmers affect the nitrogen and phosphorus cycles

Answer 9

Through fertilizers

Question 10

Which area would get more rain, an area with high humidity or low humidity

Answer 10

High humidity

Question 11

In which general direction do the trade winds originate and blow

Answer 11

East to West

Question 12

Which way do the westerlies move

Answer 12

West to East

Question 13

What are the 3 particles that make up a loam

Answer 13

Sand, silt, clay

Question 14

What are the 3 components of biodiversity conversion

Answer 14

Natural resources, benefits, and drivers of change

Question 15

What are the 5 drivers of change

Answer 15

Exploitation, pollution, habitat loss, extinction, introduction of invasive species

Question 16

What is coral bleaching

Answer 16

When coral loses its algae

Question 17

What are some spices that are extinct because of exploitation

Answer 17

The dodo bird and the passenger pigeon

Question 18

What is an example of an invasive species

Answer 18

Kudzu, zebra muscles, rabbits

Question 19

What are the 5 types of renewable energy

Answer 19

Solar, wind, hydropower, geothermal, and bioenergy

Question 20

What are the problems with solar power

Answer 20

The solar panels are make of selenium, they wear out, they take up space

Question 21

What is the problem with wind energy

Answer 21

They take up a lot of space and kill birds

Question 22

What is the problem with hydropower

Answer 22

Is harmful to fish and other organisms from that habitat, it alters local habitats, and it will not work if there is a drought

Question 23

Why is the earth warmer now

Answer 23

Because the weather works in cycles

Question 24

What was the little ice age

Answer 24

A time when the earth was unusually cold

Question 25

What takes fixed nitrogen and put it back in the atmosphere

Answer 25

Denitrifying bacteria

Question 26

Where do consumers get the nitrogen that they use and how do they put it back into the soil

Answer 26

From the plants and animals that they eat, through their east and when they decompose