Energy Conservation and Transfer
Which of these sources of energy could be considered renewable? Select ALL that apply.
A.) Solar Power
B.) Fossil Fuels
C.) Hydropower
D.) Wind Power
What are Solar Power, Hydropower, and Wind Power?
According to the law of superstition, fossils found buried deep underground will be ______ those found closer to the surface.
What is Older than?
The term for all the living things in an ecosystem.
What are biotic factors?
This state of matter has a definite volume but takes the shape of the container it is poured into.
What is liquid?
This is a coastal area where freshwater from rivers mixes with salty ocean water.
What is an estuary?
What could be a major concern associated with hydropower?
A.) Reduces the salinity of lakes and streams
B.) Increases the ocean temperatures
C.) Power grid failure
D.) Disrupts rivers and surrounding ecosystems
Disrupts rivers and the surrounding ecosystems
Which organism would you expect to be the most related to the first dinosaurs?
What are birds?
Examples include sunlight, rocks, water, and temperature.
What are abiotic factors?
What are the three subatomic particles that make up an atom?
What are protons, neutrons, and electrons?
This is the name for water stored underground in soil and rock layers.
What is groundwater?
If a person lives in a remote part of the desert, what renewable energy option should he or she use?
What is Solar Power?
This specific type of fossil forms when minerals replace the remains of a once-living organism, turning them into stone.
What is a petrified fossil?
The maximum number of individuals that an environment can support over a long period of time.
What is carrying capacity?
In a saltwater solution, the salt is called the solute. What do we call the water (the substance doing the dissolving)?
What is a Solvent?
This is the shoreline area that exists between high tide and low tide levels.
What is the intertidal zone?
When a person rubs their cold hands together to warm them up, they are converting mechanical energy into this type of energy.
What is thermal (or heat) energy?
This is a hollow space left in a sedimentary rock when an organism's shell or body dissolves.
What is a mold?
Any factor or condition that limits the growth of a population in an ecosystem is called this.
What is a limiting factor?
True or False: Physical changes are reversible, but chemical changes are irreversible.
True
An underground layer of permeable rock or sediment that holds usable groundwater is called this.
What is an aquifer
This type of energy is known as "stored energy".
What is potential energy?
The type of rock in which the vast majority of all fossils are found.
What is sedimentary rock?
An organism's specific role in its habitat, or how it makes its living and interacts with the biotic and abiotic factors.
What is a Niche?
This change of state happens when a gas cools down and turns into a liquid, such as water droplets on a cold glass.
What is condensation?
This percentage represents the amount of Earth’s total water that is saltwater.
What is 97%?