Key Concepts in Environmental Science

temperature

a region's distance above sea level

an area's average weather conditions over time, including temperature, rainfall, or other precipitation, or wind

<p>organisms that use outside sources of energy like the sun to create energy-rich food molecules</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>process in which some types of soil bacteria can form the nitrogen compounds that plants need</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>False</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the features of the environment that are alive, or were once alive</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>to replace soil nitrogen in crops, fields, lawns, and gardens</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>is invisible and plentiful, so it is easily overlooked</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the nonliving, physical features of the environment</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>air, water, soil, sunlight, temperature, and climate</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>store chemical energy</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>organisms that cannot create energy-rich molecules but obtain their food by eating other organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>living organisms and decaying remains of dead organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>because most of it is made up of nonliving rock and mineral particles and it also contains living organisms and decaying remains of dead organisms</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>an example of how earth's biosphere recycles materials over and over</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>through the carbon cycle</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>the transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphere</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>both involve producers making food</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Photosynthesis = Converts sunlight into energy/food and plants create the energy Chemosynthesis = Converts chemicals into energy/food and bacteria create the energy</p> Signup and view all the answers