Chapter 5 and 6 Test Topic List

Periods 1, 3, 7 TEST IS MONDAY 10/10 Periods 2 and 4 TEST IS TUESDAY 10/11 CHAPTER 5 Nitrogen cycle steps and components (like what chemicals) Plates which plates do the different parts of California reside on? Plate boundary between N. American and Pacific Plate tectonics Types of plate boundaries Layers of the atmosphere and their features Human affects on the water cycle What happens to the suns energy when it hits the biosphere (what all can it do?) How the different biogeochemical cycles are important for humans Carbon cycle Human impacts on phosphorus cycle Phosphorus cycle How is solar radiation involved in the various biogeochemical cycles Cause of Earths seasons Ocean conveyor belt What influences climate Photosynthesis

CHAPTER 6 Examples of aquatic life zones Climate graphs for temperate, tropical and polar grasslands Features of the desert Coral Reef ecosystem services and features KNOW THAT: drainage basin is also called a tributary and a watershed KNOW THAT: Lake turnover is when the thermocline separates the upper epilimnion from the lower hypolimnion when stratification exists in the lake & the fact that solid ice at 0C is less dense than liquid water at 4C causes thermal stratification in deep lakes in temperate areas KNOW THAT: Marine biodiversity is difficult to protect due to the perception that the seas contain inexhaustible resources & the difficulties in developing, monitoring, and enforcing international agreements & much of it being out of view of most people Biome Estuary Major problem Everglades faces Tundra features What affects biome structure Distribution of organisms in aquatic ecosystems