Energy Matters.....
Mostly Miscellanenous
...but Not Random!
...but Not Random!
Models and Processes andMore, Oh My!
Lions & Deer & Shrubs (Oh My!)
NOT Charlotte's Web ;)
100
Food and Fuel are all about this: Plants trap and store ____________; Nothing makes it!
What is Energy?
100
Cats do this, but I'm not a cat, silly! I'm an area that drains into a particular river or body of water...
What is a Watershed?
(Get it, I SHED? ;)
100
A way over-simplified model of one thing being eaten by one thing, and so on.....
What is a Food Chain?
100
Absence (lack of) Owls in a food web would affect... (Whoooooo?):
That would be Everything, because everything is Interconnected!
100
Every single little teeny itty bit of energy in (almost) all food webs and driving the Weather comes from .....
What is the Sun?
200
Neither Energy nor Matter is ___________ or _______________.
What is Created or Destroyed!
200
An infamous slope line that represents a model of CO2 increasing dramatically more rapidly in recent years.
What is the Hockey Stick graph?
200
The Big Process that Uses CO2, and makes O2 (thank goodness!):
What is Photosynthesis? :)
200
_____________ = all the living (Biotic) plus the non-living 'stuff' together in the same area.
What is an Ecosystem?
200
The main idea of a Food Web is that Every Single Living Thing is essentially...
What is Interconnected?
300
Energy transfers, or ________________, from one organisms to another by Feeding. (In other words, Matter Cycles, and Energy _________________.)
What is, Energy Flows! (Whereas Matter Cycles)
300
Even though Diamonds are made out of the same element, we are all _______________ - based life forms! (on Earth, that is....)
What is Carbon?
300
The model that shows interconnected chains, relying on one another:
What is a Food Web?
300
A group of critters, same species, same area, for example the squirrels around Shiverick's Pond...
What is a Population?
300
Latin 101: The bottom level of a food web is made up of Self-feeders, or (blank-blanks in Latin).
What is Auto-Trophs?
400
Since all our Matter is used and re-used, we use the word ________________ to describe its changing of forms. (Remember, Energy Flows...what does Matter do?)
What is Matter Cycles? (Remember, Energy Flows :)
400
I'm a body of water that contributes to another body of water... like a stream that flows into a river...
What is a tributary?
400
A shapely model, showing Energy Available and Energy Loss (as heat) at each level:
What is an Energy Pyramid?
400
All of the living (biotic) Populations around Shiverick's Pond, or in any area, are considered a .....
What is a Community?
400
Latin 101: The level above Producers in a Food Web are the Plant-Eaters, or (blank-blank in Latin).
What are the Herbi-Vores?
500
We know of the CO2 / O2 Cycle: What are 2 others?: ____________ & ______________
What are Water and Nitrogen Cycles?
500
Putting Nitrogen fertilizer on my lawn can make it a lovely shade of Green. But when my nearby pond also turns green, it could be a sign of too much nutrient in the pond
(aka another '-tion' word...)
What is a Eutrophication?
500
The Big 3 Processes that put CO2 into the atmosphere, but just at different speeds:
What are: Combustion (fastest), Cellular Respiration (slower), Decomposition (slowest).
500
If Primary Consumers increase, what happens to the Secondary Consumers (at first, anyway)?
What is, they would Increase in number!
500
Latin 101: Secondary Consumers are meat-eaters (blank-blanks = Meat Eater in Latin).
What are Carni-vores?