Unti 5

Question 1

Can there be more top predators than herbivores?

Answer 1

No, because there is less energy in the top of energy pyramid

Question 2

List the four cycles

Answer 2

Carbon, nitrogen, water, oxygen

Question 3

Do the cycles remain within living or nonliving elements - or do the cycles move between living and nonliving?

Answer 3

They cycles interact with living and Nonliving elements

Question 4

Explain how human activities can impact the carbon cycle. What human activities add more carbon to the atmosp

Answer 4

Chopping down trees prevents them from taking co2 out of the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels puts more carbon in the atmosphere.

Question 5

How can carbon move from sediments/rock into the atmosphere?

Answer 5

When a volcano erupts it causes rocks and sentiments to go into the atmosphere

Question 6

How can nitrogen move from the atmosphere into the soil?

Answer 6

Lightning can fix the free nitrogen in the air and is turned into a solid