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| path a chemical takes through 4 major reservoirs--Atmosphere, Hydrosphere, Lithospere, Biosphere |
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| the process in which new chemicals are formed |
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| Carbonic Acid reacts with things such as rocks and soils torelease chemicals into the environment |
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| elements recquired in large amounts by all life |
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| Big 6 building blocks of life |
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| Phosporous, Sulfur, Carbon, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen (PS CHON) |
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| creation and destruction of solid outer layer of the Earth (lithosphere) through the movement of the plates. The plates' boundaries are geologically active |
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| plates move away from each other. Aka seafloor spreading bc it causes ocean basins. |
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| plates collide with each other--makes mountain ranges |
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| one plate slides past another |
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| processes that make rocks and soil. Recieves energy from tectonic cycle and water from the hydrolic cycle |
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| the cooled magma from when rocks are pushed together under the earth's surface ( convergent plates?). Insde Earth=intrusive; Outside=extrusive |
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| the combination through lithification of the small segments of rock broken down from rocks by weathering and erosion |
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| rocks exposed tohigh temperatures or pressures. Often in extrusive ignous rock magma |
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| ecological community and its nonliving environment interacting. Understood through structure (by species occurrence or location--living [ecological community] and non-living [physical chemical environment]), processes, functionally (by species interactions), and dynamism (change over time. Always can be decribed in terms of food webs, food chains, and trophic levels |
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| Dominant Oceanic producers |
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| Dominant Oceanic Consumer |
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| zooplankton (small freefloating invertebrate animals) |
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| Community-level interactions |
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| indirect species interactions |
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| how terrestial ecosystejs are identified. the area of land drained by one stream. Members of a watershed are united by that system's cycling |
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| 6CO2 + 6H2O = C6H12O6 + 6O2 |
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| photosynthesis; so differet from the carbonis acid reaction bc it is driven by life |
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| photosynthetic organisms make sugar from carbon dioxide and water which is made into other organic compounds (protein, woody tissue..) ending with decomposers to get back to inorganic compounds |
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transfer of water from oceans to the atmosphere to the land and back to the oceans. Involves evaporation of water from oceans, Precipitation on land
Evaporation from land, Runoff from streams, rivers and subsurface groundwater |
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