earth systems Flashcards
(44 cards)
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Abiotic
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Non living things
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Atmosphere
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Bio
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Biosphere
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Biotic
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Living things
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Crust
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Cryosphere
A
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Greenhouse gas
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Groundwater
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Lithosphere
A
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Mesosphere
A
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Salinity
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Stratosphere
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Tectonic plate
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Turbidity
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Thermosphere
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Troposphere
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Upper mantle
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A very thick layer of rock inside the planet, which begins just beneath the crust and ends at the top of the lower mantle
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Water vapour
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Gas form of water
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Food chain
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Food web
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A food web shows many energy transfers and interactions in an ecosystem.
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Herbivore
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Only eats plants.
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Carnivore
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Only eat meat.
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Omnivore
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Eats plants and meat.
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Producer
They can make their own energy.
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Consumer
Eat other organisms.
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Trophic level
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Decomposer
Breaks down dead or decaying matter.
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Primary consumer
Any consumer that is eating the producer is a primary consumer.
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Secondary consumer
A secondary consumer is a consumer that eats the primary consumer.
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Tertiary consumer
A tertiary consumer is a consumer that eats the secondary consumers.
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Quaternary consumer
The last level is a quaternary consumer eats the tertiary consumer.
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Germination
The term germination is the process of a coated seed growing a root and beginning to grow into a plant
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Seedling formation
It starts growing towards sunlight when it gets the proper nutrients from the sun as well from the roots.
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Growth and development
Plants carry out a process called photosynthesis using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to synthesize their own food in the form glucose.
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Differentiation
Plants become a mature plant and starts flowering. Flowers will attract bees and pollinate insects and helps in pollination and fertilisation.
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Pollination
Pollination occurs when pollen travels from one plant to the flower of a different plant.
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Fertilisation
Fertilisation is when the pollen meets the egg inside the flower. This creates seeds!
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Volcanic eruptions
Release large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
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carbon sequestration
(on land)
On land, plants take in carbon dioxide to use in photosynthesis and store within their tissues (cells).
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carbon sequestration
(in ocean)
phytoplankton and other marine organisms take in carbon through photosynthesis.
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cellular respiration
Animals eat the plants and take in 02 to power cellular respiration, and the release c02 into the atmosphere. Works with photosynthesis to act as carbon transfer between organisms.
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photosynthesis
Plant cells absorb solar energy, carbon dioxide and water and convert them into oxygen, water and glucose (energy). Works with cellular respiration to act as carbon transfer between organisms.
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