Fossil fuels and ecosystems

_____ ecosystem: is an ecosystem formed by surrounding a body of water, in contrast to land-based terrestrial ecosystems

Types of fossil fuels

• Coal, natural gas

• Animals

• Organic compounds

• Wood

Energy from the sun that is changed into electrical energy through panel cells

• Water energy

• Solar energy

• Wind energy

• Geothermal energy

Non-living beings are called: _____

_____ resources: Energy resources that cannot be replaced or are replaced much more slowly than they are used

A nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago

• Fossil fuels

• Ecosystem

• Water power

• Paleontologist

Solar energy, water energy, wind energy and geothermal energy, are types of:

• Ecosystem

• Nonrenewable resources

• Organic compound

• Renewable resources

Organic molecules contain carbon. The exchange of carbon between the environment and living things is known as the _____ cycle

• Nitrogen cycle

• Water cycle

• Carbon cycle

The potential energy of this source can be changed into kinetic energy as it flows through a dam

• Solar energy

• Wind energy

• Water energy

• Geothermal energy

Living beings of the same species that inhabit a

specific place.

• Population

• Community

• Biosphere

• Environment