Science Unit One Test

Front 1

List 5 natural causes for climate change?

Back 1

The water cycle

The carbon cycle

Catastrophic events

Ocean currents

Earths tilt, rotation, and orbit around the sun

Front 2

What is GWP?

Back 2

Global Warming Potential

Front 3

What is thermal energy?

Back 3

Energy that comes from heat

Front 4

List 3 greenhouse gasses

Back 4

Carbon Dioxide

Methane

Nitrous Oxide

Front 5

Explain the greenhouse effect

Back 5

The increased capacity of the atmosphere to absorb an emit thermal energy.

Front 6

Explain how Ocean currents effect heat transfer?

Back 6

The currents transport large amount of beat all over the globe. The deep water currents act as a conveyer belt that transports the heat all over. The surface currents exchange heat with the atmosphere.

Front 7

What are some catastrophic events that can cause a change in the climate?

Back 7

Wild fire

Volcano eruption

Tsunami

Hurricane

Front 8

What types of relationships exist between organisms?

Back 8

Commensalism

Mutualism

Parasitism

Competitions

Predation

Front 9

Describe one biome

Back 9

Montane- in South America, new guinea, and east Africa

Cool wet conditions

Front 10

Organize the ecological terms from smallest to largest

Back 10

Species

Population

Community

Ecosystem

Terrain

Biome

Biosphere

Front 11

what is the difference between a niche and a habitat?

Back 11

a niche is a role every organism has to play in the ecosystem.

a habitat is a place in which an organism lives.

Front 12

What is a limiting factor? give an example.

Back 12

conditions that limit the growth of an organism.

if there is not enough food for all the deer some will die.

Front 13

name different stores for the nitrogen cycle/carbon cycle

Back 13

stable N2 within the soil, plants, and animals as organic matter

consumer act as a store

Front 14

explain what is meant by nutrient cycle

Back 14

the chemicals that are required for plant and animal growth and other life processes. the continuous flow of nutrients in and out of stores is what makes a nutrients cycle.

Front 15

what are some of the processes in the nitrogen/carbon cycle?

Back 15

Nitrogen Fixation

Nitrification

Dentification

Combustion

Run-off

Eating/Dying

Front 16

explain what is meant by the process of photosynthesis.

Back 16

it is the process by which the plant uses sunlight to convert energy into food.

Front 17

what is the reverse of photosynthesis?

Back 17

respiration

Front 18

define nutrients

Back 18

the chemicals that are required for plant and animal growth and other life processes

Front 19

define population

Back 19

all the members of a particular species within an ecosystem

Front 20

define carrying capacity

Back 20

the amount of things an area can contain

Front 21

define predation

Back 21

predetor- prey interaction. when one organism eats all of the other organism.

Front 22

define adaptation

Back 22

the action or process of adapting or being adapted

Front 23

define mutualism

Back 23

the relationship where both organisms benefit, they are unable to survive without the other.

Front 24

Define Commensalism

Back 24

when one species is benefitted while the other one is neither helped or harmed.

Front 25

Define paratism

Back 25

when one species benefits and another is harmed.

Front 26

define paleoclimatologist

Back 26

the people who study fossils

Front 27

Define nitrogen Fixation

Back 27

the process when stable nitrogen can be transformed into a more soluble form

Front 28

Define albedo

Back 28

the proportion of light or radiation that is reflected off an object

Front 29

Define nitrification

Back 29

harmful ammonia that is transformed by other bacteria that can be used to help plants grow

Front 30

Define Denitrification

Back 30

when the bacteria will convert nitrates back into atmospheric nitrogen to harvest the oxygen they need

Front 31

Define fossil fuel

Back 31

a natural gas that is formed from the remains of living organisms

Front 32

define Ecosystem

Back 32

a community of organisms

Front 33

Define Biome

Back 33

a large region containing the same plant's animals and climate.

Front 34

Define Biosphere

Back 34

anywhere living things exist

Front 35

define equilibrium

Back 35

a state in which opposing forces or influences are balanced.

Front 36

Define sample

Back 36

when you take a small area and count the things in that area and then you just assume that the rest if the land around it is the same

Front 37

Define abiotic

Back 37

not alive things in a n ecosystem

Front 38

Define Biotic

Back 38

The living organisms in an ecosystem

Front 39

define EL Nino

Back 39

series of climate changes in the pacific region warm wayter comes to the surface

Front 40

define la nina

Back 40

when the cold water comes to the surface

Front 41

define habitat

Back 41

the home or environment of a plant, animal or living organism.

Front 42

Define NIche

Back 42

the roles the organisms play in an ecosystem.

Front 43

Define Invasive species

Back 43

a species that invade places and ruins certain things like the emerald ash borer attacks all ash trees and burrows into them and kills them.

Front 44

Define ecology

Back 44

the study of living things