bio ch 54

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flows cycle
energy _______ and nutrients _______
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heat
reason why energy conversions are not completely efficient: energy 'lost' as h______
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cellular respiration
reason why energy conversions are not completely efficient: energy 'lost' due to c________ __________
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sugars ATP
goal of cellular respiration? break down ______ to make ______
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yes
do detritivores have mouths?
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no
do saprotrophs have mouths?
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saprotrophs
what type of organisms secrete enzymes to to break down dead organisms?
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decomposers
what connects all trophic levels?
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primary production
what is the amount of light energy converted to chemical energy by autotrophs during a given time period?
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photosynthetic
the extent of __________ production sets the spending limit for the energy budget of the entire ecosystem
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global energy budget
amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the earth - limits photosynthetic output of ecosystems
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gross primary production
amount of light converted to chemical energy before photosynthesis... like income before taxes
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net primary production
GPP (gross primary production - everything) not including the energy used by primary producers for cellular respiration
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GPP
NPP + R = ___
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NPP
GPP - R = ___
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respiration
what is R in the equations GPP - R = NPP and NPP = GPP + R
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terrestrial
what type of ecosystem is 2/3 of of the global NPP?
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oceanic
what type of ecosystem is 1/3 of of the global NPP?
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amino acids nucleic acids
why is nitrogen a nutrient that limits marine production? because it is necessary to make a______ a_______ and n_____ a_____
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metabolic
why is nitrogen a nutrient that limits marine production? it is necessary for many ________ processes
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phospholipid bilayer/plasma membrane
phosphorus makes up the....
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oligotrophic
what type of lake... lots of oxygen, not many nutrients
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eutrophic
what type of lake... little oxygen but lots of nutrients
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evapotranspiration
the amount of water annually transpired by plants and evaporated from a landscape
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production efficiency
___________ ___________ of an organisms is the fraction of energy stored in food that is NOT used for respiration
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trophic efficiency
the percent of production transferred from one trophic level to the next
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10%
trophic efficiency we will always use in this class
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efficient
why is being vegetarian good? it's more e_______
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carbon footprint
why is being vegetarian good? less of a c_____ f_________
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defenses
factor to keep herbivores in check: plants have natural ________
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nutrients
factor to keep herbivores in check: n_______ limit herbivores
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abiotic
factor to keep herbivores in check: a________ factors
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predation
factor to keep herbivores in check: p_________
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competition
factor to keep herbivores in check: intraspecific ___________
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interactions
factor to keep herbivores in check: interspecific ___________
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globally
nitrogen, carbon, and water cycle all cycle...
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phosphorus
which cycle does not cycle globally?
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nitrogen fixation
nitrogen cycle: Conversion of nitrogen gas (N2) into nitrate (N03-) (bacteria responsible for this)
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Ammonification
nitrogen cycle: When plants and animals excrete waste or die, bacteria convert nitrogen into ammonia
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Nitrification
nitrogen cycle: conversion of ammonia to nitrate
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Denitrification
nitrogen cycle: bacteria convert ammonia, nitrite and nitrates back into nitrogen gas, nitrogen gas back to atmosphere
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seasons
why the up and down of CO2 in the graph that fargo showed us in class? (winter at the top, summer at the bottom) (this is because plants are not doing as much photosynthesis in the winter)
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solar energy
what is the water cycle driven by?
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okay
practice drawing the water cycle
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okay
practice drawing the carbon cycle
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lightning
what is also kind of involved in the nitrogen cycle? (idrk how but fargo always talks about it)
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atmosphere
phosphorus is not a global cycle because there is no phosphorus in the a__________
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weather soil
phosphorus could be a long term cycle because rocks w_________ which slowly adds phosphorus to the s____
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vegetation
nutrient cycling is strongly regulated by ___________
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westerlies
what type of wind controls where the most acid rain is?
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the northeast
What part of the US is most affected by acid precipitation?
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biological magnification
what is it called when toxins concentrate at higher trophic levels because at these levels biomass tends to be lower
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broken down
toxins are not fat soluble, which means they can't be b_______ d______ in an organism
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global warming
The warming of planet Earth due to the atmospheric accumulation of carbon dioxide, which absorbs infrared radiation and slows its escape from the irradiated Earth.
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no
is the greenhouse effect bad?
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yes
is global warming bad?
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thinning
the ozone layer is t________
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DNA and RNA
what do nucleic acids make up?
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proteins
what do amino acids make up?
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cellular respiration
6O2 and C6H12O6 → 6CO2 + 6H2O + ATP
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photosynthesis
6CO2 + 6H2O→ 6O2 and C6H12O6
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egestion
The act of discharging undigested or waste material from a cell or organism
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Cultural eutrophication
Eutrophication caused by humans (sewage) or addition of fertilizer
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Eutrophication
A process by which nutrients particularly phosphorus and nitrogen become highly concentrated in a body of water leading increased growth of organisms such as algae
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combustion fossil fuels
main cause of acid rain: c_________ of ________ _________
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acidic
H2CO3 makes oceans more _________