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Taiga
Evergreen trees, long cold winters, short summer
Tundra
Arctic low growing vegetation, permafrost, long winters, short summer
Tropical Forest
Warm temperature year-round, most rain of any biome, most biodiverse
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Moderate winters and rain, most trees drop leaves in winter
Savannah
Warm temperature, two seasons-wet and dry, most vegetation long grasses
Grassland
Perennial grasses, cold winters, warm summers, mostly non-woody plants prairies
Desert
Extreme dryness, hot summers, cold winters, cold nights compared to daytime.
Marine
Covers 3/4 of earth, has coral reefs and estuaries.
Fresh Water
Low salt concentration, ponds, rivers, lakes, wetlands, not as biodiverse as other water biome
Fossil Fuels,
What is A? Using blank for energy converts organic carbon to CO2
Cellular Respiration
What is B? Most organisms, including plants, animals, and decomposers perform blank producing CO2 from organic food.
Atmosphere
What is C? CO2 is absorbed to the blank.
Ocean
What is D? CO2 is absorbed by the blank
Photosynthesis
What is E? Plants perform blank fixing CO2 into organic molecules
Fossil Fuels /
What is F? Coal and oil are blank which trap carbon below Earth’s surface
Ecosystem
Living and nonliving components in an environment
Climate
Regional average of atmospheric conditions over long period of time looking at precipitation and temperature
Weather
Short local atmospheric conditions that can change several times in a week.
Greenhouse Effect
Natural process where heat is radiated from earths surface and trapped by the atmosphere, helps to maintain earth at a temperature that supports life.
Greenhouse Gas
Any gasses in the earths atmosphere that absorb heat and contribute to the warming of the earth.
Carbon Dioxide and Methane
Examples of greenhouse gases
Fossil Fuels
Carbon rich energy source formed from compressed organic matter from ancient organisms.
Coal and Petroleum
Examples of Fossil Fuels
Carbon Cycle
Movement of carbon atoms as they cycle between organic and inorganic CO2
Carbon Footprint
A measure of the total greenhouse gases produced by human activities
Biological Magnification
The increasing buildup of toxic substances within organisms that happens at each stage of the food chain.
Sustainability
The use of earth’s resources in a way that will not destroy or deplete them
Natural Resources
Raw materials that are obtained from earth and considered valuable even in natural form
Water Lumbar
Example of natural resource
Ecological Footprint
A measure of how much land and water area is required to both suppl resources to an individual or population consumers AND absorb the wastes that person/population produces
Global Hectare
A measurement representing the biological productivity such as resource providing and waste absorbing capacity of a hectare of earth.
Biocapacity
The amount of Earth’s biological productive area, cropland, forest, fisheries that is available to provide resources and absorb waste.
Renewable Resource
A natural resource that are replenished after use as long as the rate of consumption does not exceed the rate of replacement.
Nonrenewable resource
Natural resource that cannot be easily replace in or in some cases, never replaced once used up.
Biodiversity
The number of different species and their relative abundance in an area, or on the planet, as a whole.
Aquifer
Underground layer of porous rock from which water can be extracted.