Day 1
This coordinate system can help a person locate a specific location on a globe.
What are latitude and longitude?
This technology helps remove impurities and pollutants from water.
What is a water filter?
This part of the plant extends out from the stem and is responsible for photosynthesis.
What is a leaf?
An energy source that is naturally replenishing or able to be reused over and over.
What is renewable energy?
This ecosystem covers 1% of the world's oceans, but provides a habitat for at least 25% of all marine life on Earth.
What are coral reefs?
Flowers produce this substance, which aids in reproduction. Organisms like bees and hummingbirds help move it around.
What is pollen?
This measurement system identifies if a substance is acidic or basic, and is commonly used to determine the quality of water.
What is the pH scale?
Four things that must be present for a habitat to function properly and for organisms to survive.
What is a food source, a water source, shelter, and space to grow?
These are the 4 major renewable energy sources.
What are wind power, hydropower, geothermal, and solar power?
Soap is an example of this type of substance that allows oil and water to mix together. The resulting mixture is called an emulsion.
What is an emulsifier?
When a seed begins to sprout after being exposed to moist soil.
What is germination?
When a seed travels via wind, water, or because of an animal.
What is seed dispersal?
When a living thing creates light through a chemical reaction, which helps organisms attract prey, confuse predators, and communicate.
What is bioluminescence?
The potential gravitational energy of a waterwheel's buckets filling is converted to this type of energy as the wheel begins to spin.
What is mechanical energy?
To promote healthy ecosystems, we need to reduce the amount of these types of plants, which are not from an area and may disrupt native plants and organisms that rely on them.
What are non-native and invasive species?
The types of energy that are produced by the Sun.
What are radiant (light) and thermal (heat) energy?
A community of living and non-living things, along with weather and landscapes, that are interconnected and rely on each other.
What is an ecosystem?
An interconnected group of food chains that show the feeding relationships within an ecosystem. It can show the energy and matter transfer from different organisms as they are consumed.
What is a food web?
This type of light is not part of the visible light spectrum, and can burn our skin.
What is ultraviolet (UV) light?
This is an artistic and literary technique where a complex idea or concept is represented by an object, image, or design. For example, a red rose has been used to represent love or affection.
What is symbolism?
Features, traits, and behaviors that help an organism survive in their enviornment.
What are adaptations?
These are the three categories of organisms that make up an ecosystem: organisms that make their own food/energy, organisms that cannot produce their own food and must eat other organisms, and organism that break down dead organic matter into simpler substances.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
What is a hooked beak?
This type of organism is the largest category in an ecosystem, providing a base to each food chain and supporting many life forms.
What are producers?
This is a super fun place where kids can learn all about the environment and how we can do our part to protect it!
What is the Orland Science Center camp at 4Roots farm?