Water and Eating Flashcards
What is Chemosynthesis performed by?
Several different types of bacteria found in extreme environments
What are Herbivores?
They eat only plants
What are Carnivores?
They eat only meat
What are Omnivores?
They eat both plants and meat
What are Detritivores?
They feed on animals and plants remains
Scavengers
What are Decomposers?
They break down organic matter
Ex:bacteria fungi
What happens to matter in the cycle of matter?
It’s recycled within and between ecosystems
What is passed through the biosphere?
Elements,chemical compounds,other forms of matter
The cycle of matter includes what cycles?
The water cycle and nutrient cycle
Water in the atmosphere is due to?
The result of evaporation from the ocean and other bodies of water
What is Evaporation?
The changing of water from liquid form to a atmospheric gas
What is Transpiration?
When water evaporates from the leaves of plants
What forms clouds?
When the sun heats the atmosphere and water vapor condenses to form clouds
How is rain or snow formed?
When droplets become large enough to fall
What is runoff?
When rain and snow run along the group and end up in rivers,lakes,oceans
