Name at least 2 greenhouse gases.
What are carbon dioxide, methane, water vapour, nitrogen oxides and ozone.
The 3 most common nutirents in agricultural fertilizer.
What are nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium?
A variable that causes something to change.
What is a manipulated or independent variable?
2 Natural causes of greenhouse gases to be released into the atmosphere.
What are volcanoes and forest fires.
Name at least two items that water conservationists would test for to determine water quality.
What is acidity, dissolved oxygen, heavy metals, pesticides, salts, plant nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus)
What are the three R's?
reuse, reduce, recycle
Term for the human activites which have increased the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere leading to global warming.
What is enhanced greenhouse effect or air pollution.
The term when an acid is added to a base to create water and a salt (to create subtance close to pH 7).
What is neutralization?
A type of insect that is sensitive to changes in pH in the water.
What are mayflies, caddisflies and stoneflies or "bioindicator macroinvertebrate"
Name at least two of the four types of organic molecules.
What are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins (amino acids), nucleic acids (DNA, RNA).
The type of nutrients that always contain carbon.
What are organic nutrients?
Name at least two side effects of global warming due to greenhouse effect.
What is coastal flooding, melting of ice caps, more violent storms, more droughts,....
Term to describe the accumulation of toxic pollutants through the food chain in water.
What is biomagnification
This is a method of controlling pest populations naturally, without the use of toxic chemicals.
What is bilogical control?
Nutrients required by plants in large quantities.a chemical element (e.g., potassium, magnesium, calcium) required in large amounts for plant growth and development.
What are macronutrients?
Any material, or form of energy, that will cause harm to a living organism
What is a pollutant?
The most common element in the human body.
What is oxygen?