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APES REVIEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
Standing Crop - Answer-amount of biomass present in an ecosystem

Water Cycle - Answer-Evaporation, Transpiration (plants release water from their leaves
into the atm), Precipitation (runoff or absorbed by soil), Evapotranspiration

Carbon Cycle - Answer-photosynthesis, respiration, sedimentation (carbon is buried),
extraction and combustion, exchange btwn dissolved Carbon in ocean and atmospheric
CO2

Nitrogen Cycle - Answer-nitrogen fixation (unusable N2--> NH3 and NO3), assimilation
(producers take in NH3 and NO3), ammonification ( decomposers break down waste
containing N and release NH3), nitrification (NH3--> NO3), denitrification (NO3-->
atmospheric N2)

Phosphorous Cycle (Sulfur is similar) - Answer-erosion breaks down rocks containing
phosphorous, plants take it in, excretion and decomposition of animals releases
phosphorous, phosphorous settles to bottom of ocean to become rock again

limiting factor - Answer-factors important in measuring population growth (ex sunlight,
water, soil, phosphorous for plants)

Atmospheric layers - Answer-troposphere--> stratosphere--> mesosphere-->
thermosphere--> exosphere

Adiabatic heating/cooling - Answer-Heating: air pressure ^, air volume v, temp ^
Cooling: air pressure v, volume ^, temp v

Latent heat release - Answer-Water vapor condenses to liquid water and releases
energy

Hadley Cells/ Polar Cells - Answer-contain little water vapor, displaced by warm air and
sink to Earth's surface, undergo adiabatic heating and become dry and hot- btwn 30
degs N and S of equator
2) btwn 60 N and S, tend to be cooler

Intertropical Convergence Zone - Answer-area of Earth that receives the most intense
sunlight (has dense clouds and intense storms)

Coriolis effect - Answer-deflection of an object's path due to Earth's rotation

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