Intro - Unit 11 Vocabulary

The part of the earth where living organisms are found.

• biosphere

• biogeochemical cycle

• ecosystem

• biome

The cycles that move water, carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, and phosphorous through biotic and abiotic pars of the ecosystem

• biogeochemical cycles

• biomes

• ecosystems

• species

A community of living organisms plus their nonliving environment.

• ecosystem

• biome

• biosphere

• population

The trend of increasing average temperatures around the world attributed to an increase in greenhouse gases

• global warming

• warming ecosystem

• anthropogenic global warming

• biogeochemical cycles

Water that travels from the atmosphere to the ground.

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

• runoff

The evaporation of water from leaves of plants.

• transpiration

• precipitation

• condensation

• runoff

The process where water vapor becomes liquid.

• condensation

• transpiration

• precipitation

• runoff

Occurs when there is more water than the land can absorb.

• runoff

• precipitation

• condensation

• transpiration

Converting inorganic carbon to organic carbon.

• Carbon fixation

• Carbon assimilation

• Carbon deletion

• Carbon eutrophication

Process used by all living organisms that uses energy from carbohydrates and releases carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.

• Cellular respiration

• photosynthesis

• carbon fixation

• nitrification