Biology Questions due 4/29
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycle.
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.
3. What is a herbivore?
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle.
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1. The biochemical cycle is a cycle in which elements are rotated through the biotic and abiotic ecosystem.
2. Ecological models are limited in the fact that it is basic and not as complex as the “real thing”.
3. An herbivore is an organism that eats plants.
4. Decomposers break down harmful as well as beneficial bacteria.
5. Plants return water to the water cycle through transpiration.
3. A herbivore is somthing that doesnt eat meat
5. its called traspiration…when the plant or tree spores open to release the water that it has to get rid of.
4. when a plant or an animal die, its body is decomposed by the decomposers. While decomposing they store back the nutrients in the soil which are again taken by plants then consumed by animals and so on
1) A biogeochemical cycle is a pathway when a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic (biosphere) and abiotic (lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) compartments of Earth
2) One of the limitations of ecological models is that the biological metaphors that ecological models stem from aren’t always correct.
3) An animal that only eats plants.
4) They help get rid of dying and decomposing things.
5) Pores on the leaves release water in the form of dew.
1. In ecology, a biogeochemical cycle is a pathway by which a chemical element moves through both biotic and abiotic compartments of Earth. A cycle is a series of change which comes back to the starting point and can be repeated.
2. Ecological processes are often limited by more than one nutrient, for example, nitrogen and phosphorus.
3. A herbivore is an animal that gets its energy from eating plants and only plants.
4. When a plant or animal dies it leaves behind nutrients and energy in the organic matter. Decomposers break down this remaining organic matter. They eventually convert all organic matter into carbon dioxide and nutrients in a form which plants and algae are able to use. This process resupplies nutrients to the ecosystem, allowing for greater primary production.
5. By the process of transpiration which is the loss of water vapor from parts of plants, especially in leaves but also in stems, flowers, and roots. The water vapor leaves the leaves through stomata, or dotted openings on the surface.
1. is a pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic and abiotic compartments of Earth.
2.you can only make the model as accurate as the factors that you plug into it.
3. something that only eats plants
4. they break down dead or decaying organisms
5. it pulls the water through its roots and releases it out through the leaves where it changes to a vapor and goes into the atmosphere.
1. Identify and explain the major geochemistry cycle.so the movement of matter (for example carbon) between these parts of the system is, practically speaking, a biogeochemical cycle
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.One of the limitations of ecological models is that the biological metaphors from which ecological models stem from aren’t always correct.
3. What is a herbivore?animals that eat just plants
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?so that it could give the soil nutrients.
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle.They absorb water from the Earth and release it into the Atmosphere
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycle.
it show how decomposers break down dead organisms
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.
it gives all organisms a job in the community
3. What is a herbivore?
a living organisms that eats plants
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?
to break down dead organisms in an economy
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle
through run off water from streams and etc.
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycles.
a biogeochemical cycle or substance turnover or cycling of substances is a pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic and abiotic compartments of Earth.
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.
Ecosystem models are formed by combining known ecological relations with data gathered from field observations.
3. What is a herbivore?
are organisms that are anatomically and physiologically adapted to eat plant-based foods.
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?
Decomposers break down animal waste and dead organisms in order to get energy and release free nutrients back into the ecosystem.
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle.
Earth’s water is always in movement, and the water cycle, also known as the hydrologic cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth.
1. In ecology and Earth science, a biogeochemical cycle or substance turnover or cycling of substances is a pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic (biosphere) and abiotic (lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere) compartments of Earth.
2. They can only do a number of experiments on them.
3. An organism that feeds on plants.
4. Decomposers break down animal waste and dead organisms in order to get energy and release free nutrients back into the ecosystem.
5. Transpirtation, the passage of water through a plant from the roots through the vascular system to the atmosphere.
1 Is a pathway by which a chemical element or molecule moves through both biotic and abiotic compartments of Earth
2 They are easy to understand representations of something we cannot normally see, but they are only as accurate as our data.
3are organisms that are anatomically and physiologically adapted to eat plant-based foods. Herbivory is a form of consumption in which an organism principally eats autotrophs[
4are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, and in doing so carry out the natural process of decomposition.
5Water that plants collect is used in photosynthesis and returns to the atmosphere by transpiration.
When water returns to the atmosphere by evaporation, plants add much-needed moisture to environments experiencing dry periods
3. A herbivore is somthing that doesnt eat meat
5. its called traspiration…when the plant or tree spores open to release the water that it has to get rid of.
4. when a plant or an animal die, its body is decomposed by the decomposers. While decomposing they store back the nutrients in the soil which are again taken by plants then consumed by animals and so on
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1. the major biochemical cycle is the water cycle: precitationevaporation turns into precipitation, precipition goes to condensation then trans
2. biological metaphors
3. herbivore is something that eats plants
4. they eat dead matter. and it leaves behind energy and nutrients in the organic material that comprised it body.
5. transporation.
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycle. the warter cycle is the cycle is ween the water avaperats and go in to the clows and then it rains and it souks in to the ground and gos to a body of water and it start all over agin.
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models. ther code be humen erares or somthing you dont understand.
3. What is a herbivore? a living think that only eats plants and vecatshin.
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?with out decomposers the sorl word avenchly be come unuseabil and malnerised and life word soly wither a way.
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle.plants have littil pores that are called sagma this relehis water back the the cycle trow trysipatashin.
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycle.
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.interactions between organisms and their enviroments, interact in a community.
3. What is a herbivore?A herbivore eats herbs.
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem? the decomposers what eat dead animals and plants in a ecosystem.
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle. The water stores energy everytime and when it rains the water drops drop into the ground traveling through dirt into the ocean.
1. A chemical element or molecule moves through biotic and aboitic parts of the environment.
2. It does not describe everything.
3. A organism that eats plants.
4.They break down dead organisms and such.
5. Through the proccess of transpiration.
1. The water cycle. Water is evaporated into clouds, is condensated, precipitated, and is put back into bodies of water where it starts over.
2. Some aren’t always correct.
3. An animal that eats only plants
4. They break down dead organisms.
5. They open their stomas to release the water.
1.) a pathway by which a chemical element go throughs biotic and abiotic compartments of the Earth. To then change back to their original form.
2.) an easy way to understand something that we can not usually see, but are only as accuracte as our data is.
3.) organism that only eats plants.
4.) To break down the dead organisms and to release the carbon that is stuck inside of the dead organism
5.) The plants take water in to grow. In the morning the open up their stoma and release dew (water) in the morning then the sun evaporates it.
1.)The water cycle, the water is constantly cycled through the atmosphere.
2.) There is no true way to model the cycle because we cannot see the cycle in itself by the naked human eye.
3.) A plant eater.
4.)They break down dead objects for food.
5.)through transperation.
1.) The biogeochemical cycle is the circulation of substances through living organisms from or to the environment.
2.) They can only have certain variables, and they can’t consider everything.
3.) A herbivore is an organism that only eats plants.
4.) They get rid of waste and they convert nutrients into usable nutrients for other organisms.
5.) Plants return water to the water cycle through transpiration. Transpiration causes plants to take in water through their roots to replace the water that is being lost through their leaves.
1.) Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Carbon, and Water Cycle.
2.) The vent’s fluids emit chemicals off of which bacteria thrive, a basic consumer structure issues forth
3.) An animal that feeds chiefly on plants.
4.) Fungi and bacteria are decomposers, they decompose a dead organism and break it down into the soil into a substance called humus, the humus helps the soil.
5.) They absorb water from the soil and release it back into the atmosphere its called transpiration.
1. The cycle of water, phosphate, carbon, and nitrogen, and how they breakdown and cycle through the planet and its atmosphere.
2. They cant show everything in great detail.
3. A plant eating animal.
4. To breakdown substances from the biogeochemical cycle.
5. Through the process of transpiration.
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycle. The water cycle, Evaporation, Transpiration, Condensation, Precipitation, and Collection.
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.One limitation would be the amount of food in the ecosystem because organisms cannot live without food. Another would be the amount of predators in the ecosystem because the predators would continue to grow in numbers as they kill which decreases the amount of organisms in the ecosystem.
3. What is a herbivore? An organism devoted to eating only plants(basically a vegan).
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem? To absorb the nutrients of fallen organisms to provide a faster recycling of nutrients.
5.Explain how plants return water to the water cycle. Plants absorb water through their roots and release the water into the atmosphere during transpiration
1. the movement (or cycling) of matter through a system; describes atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, an biosphere.
2. ecological models an its limitations is the biological metaphors from which ecological models stem from aren’t always correct.
3. an animal that gets its energy from eating plants, and only plants.
4. the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem is that it helps break down all the dead matter.
5. the evaporation of the water cycle usually helps the plants return back.
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycle.
-The plants and animals that live and then die are the bio part; the earth that they decompose into comprises the geo part; and the process by which organic matter returns to the chemical elements in the earth is explained by the chemical part. There are four biogeochemical cycles, and each of them returns to the earth important elements that are required in living organisms.
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.
-One of the limitations of ecological models is that the biological metaphors from which ecological models stem from aren’t always correct.
3. What is a herbivore?
-Animal that only eats plants.
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?
-it neutreants the soil and helps plants.
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle.
-They open up and let out water, like the dew when you wake up in the morning.
1. Chemical elements and simple substances are transferred between living systems and the environment.
2. The biological metaphors from which ecological models stem from aren’t always correct.
3. A herbivore is an animal that feeds on plants.
4. By breaking down dead material, they provide the nutrients that other organisms need to survive. As decomposers feed on dead organisms, they leave behind nutrients.
5. Plants absorb the water from the soil and then release it back into the atmosphere by transpiration.
1.Elements, chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another through the biogeochemical cycles
2. the biological metaphors from which ecological models stem from aren’t always correct.
3,an animal that eats only plants
4.break down the dead organisms
5.plants absorb the water from the soil and then release it back into the atmosphere by transpiration
1.the carbon cycle. the biogeochemical cycle by which carbon is exchanged among the biosphere, pedosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
2.limits of current knowledge.
3.Herbivores are organisms that are anatomically and physiologically adapted to plant-based foods.
4.to break down dead organisms.
5.It is returned to the atmosphere as water vapour.
1. Identify and explain the major biogeochemical cycle.-nutrient cycles where matter is neither created nor destroyed
2. Describe some limitations of ecological models.-Some limitations would be inaccurate data and not enough information to provided for the model.
3. What is a herbivore?-an animal that eats only plants
4. What is the importance of decomposers in the ecosystem?-decomposers help replenish the nutrients in the soil.
5. Explain how plants return water to the water cycle.-plants return water to the water cycle through transpiration
1. a pathway in which a molecule moves through biotic and abiotic places.
2. Biological meta fores aren’t always correct
3. An animal that only eats plants.
4. They take away all the dead in an ecosystem so the animals don’t get sick.
5. Through the process of transpiration.
1. The major biogeochemical cycles are: water cycle, carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle, and phosphorous cycle.
2. A limitation of a ecological model is that it is very hard for it to be tested or validated.
3. A herbivore is an animal that eats only plants.
4. Decomposers help release nutrient back to the earth for other organisms to use.
5. Plants have dew on them in the morning and those water droplets are released back to the air through evaporation.
1.it is the natural circulation pathways
2.
3. a herbivore is something that only eats vegetables.
4.they breakdown things and create carbon and other things.
5.transpiration
1. It is in cycle in which chemicals go in to be renewed.
2. Only a certain number will be used to complete the cycle
3. An organism that eats only plants
4. Decomposes break down dead organisms to keep our soil fertile
5. They give water back through transpiration
1. Water cycle, describes the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth.
2. Biological metaphors from which ecological models stem from, aren’t always correct.
3. Organisms that only eat plants.
4. They break down dead material and put nutrients into the Earth.
5. Transpiration.
1. The biochemical cycle is a cycle in which elements are rotated through the biotic and abiotic ecosystem.
2. Ecological models are limited in the fact that it is basic and not as complex as the “real thing”.
3. An herbivore is an organism that eats plants.
4. Decomposers break down harmful as well as beneficial bacteria.
5. Plants return water to the water cycle through transpiration.