Download Study Guide for Test: Biomes/Nitrogen Cycle

Study Guide
Know : examples of vocabulary you must know
definitions for decomposers, Carbiniferous Period, nitrogen fixing bacteria, nitrifying bacteria, denitrifying
bacteria, mycorrhizal fungi, acid precipitation, eutrophication, crop rotation, Rhizobia, legumes, Haber,
leeching, dead zone, trophic level, omnivore, carnivore, food chain, top carnivore, herbivore, producer,
food web, consumer, prey, energy, decomposer, ecosystem, biomass, carrying capacity, products of
photosynthesis, products of respiration, respiration, photosynthesis, CO2, energy, habitat preservation,
ozone depletion
How Fungi live
Concentration of elements in the atmosphere
Trophic Levels, Nitrogen Cycle, Carbon Cycle
Canadian Biomes: examples…
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the greatest biodiversity
the most fragile biome
covers the greatest amount of area in Canada
with the least amount of naturally-occurring ecosystems remaining in Canada
Biomes: examples…
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the least amount of precipitation on an annual basis?
greatest amount of precipitation on an annual basis?
the greatest temperature range on an annual basis?
the highest mean annual temperature?
Tropical rain forests surface area
Rain fall in temperate deciduous forests & temperate grasslands
How mother Nature makes deserts
New technologies with cars:
Difference between a hybrid car and a Fuel cell car; advantages and disadvantages for each technology
Understand this chart!
Label the axes (Beware the trap)
Identify some biomes on this chart
Describe how humans are disrupting the carbon cycle
How human activities can result in “desertification”.
Flush/Crash models of Population Growth
Ecological Succession – Primary? Secondary? Phytoremdiation?
Keystone vs Sentinel Species
“Greenhouse Effect” and “Global Warming”
How “Thermal Depolymerization” would reduce global warming
New technologies with cars:
Difference between a hybrid car and a Fuel cell car; advantages and disadvantages for each technology
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