Environmental Science B Interactive Review

Organisms that can capture energy from inorganic, nonliving sources (for example: the sun)

• Producers

• Consumers

• Detritivores

• Carnivores

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If only 10% of the energy transfers to the next level where does the 90% go??

• Chemical energy

• Kinetic energy

• Thermal (heat) energy

• Mechanical energy

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Which of the following is an abiotic factor in an ecosystem?

• water

• bacteria

• plants

• vertebrates

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The energy in most ecosystems comes from _______________.

• Wind

• Carbohydrates

• Photosynthesis

• The sun

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An atmospheric gas that increases when fossil fuels are burned off.

• nitorgen

• carbon dioxide

• oxygen

• carbon

Where would you most likely find nitrogen-fixing bacteria?

• in blue-green algae

• on dust particles in the atmosphere

• in the roots of legumes

• in leaves of trees

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Which describes the relationship between plants and animals in the carbon cycle?

• Plants produce and release oxygen that animals need

• Plants produce and release carbon dioxide that animals need

• Animals produce and release oxygen that plants need

• Animals produce oxygen that plants turn into carbon dioxide

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Where an organism lives

• habitat

• niche 

• heterotrogh

• biosphere

Food Web

• System of several overlapping food chains

• energy moving from one level to the next

• living/nonliving factors in an ecisystem

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the conflict between the short-term interests of individuals and the long-term welfare of society

• law of supply and demand

• law of economics

• Tragedy of the Commons

• scientific law