Energy
A rubber band is stretched between a person’s fingers and then released. Tell me the energy that it has in its stretched position and what it changes to when it is released.
What is Elastic Potential Energy to Kinetic Energy.
What is the primary source of energy for all ecosystems on Earth ?
What is the sun
What does biodiversity mean?
What is the variety of life?
What is the process where liquid water changes into a gas (water vapor) ?
What is evaporation?
This term refers to the contamination of Earth's land, water, or air by harmful substances.
What is Pollution?
Which type of energy is converted when fireworks are lit then release heat, light, and sound?
What is Chemical Energy, Thermal Energy, Light(Radiant) Energy, and Sound Energy
what are organisms that produce their own food using sunlight?
What are producers?
What is an organism's preferred habitat, or its specific role within an ecosystem?
What is a Niche?
What is the continuous movement of water between the hydrosphere and atmosphere?
What is the water cycle?
This is the primary gas released into the atmosphere by human activities like burning fossil fuels.
What is Fossil Fuels?
Which type of energy is being converted into kinetic energy as a marble falls from a shelf?
What is gravitational potential energy
What percentage of energy passed from one trophic level to the next
What is 10%
What is it called when you have members of one species in a particular area ?
What is a population?
This phenomenon, essential for life, involves the trapping of heat by gases like carbon dioxide and water vapor in the atmosphere.
What is the greenhouse effect
This type of renewable energy harvests power directly from the sun
What is solar power?
What type of energy transfer is taking place as the coils in a toaster heat?
What is electrical to thermal?
Waht is a complex, interconnected network of many food chains
What is a food web
What are the three types of symbiotic relationahips?
What is parasitism, commensalism and mutualism
Most of the water in Earth's hydrosphere is this type, which is unsuitable for drinking.
What is salt water?
This practice involves the clearing of land for agriculture or developments, such as housing.
What is deforestation?
What are the three methods of heat transfer?
What is conduction, Convection & Radiation
In a food chain, the arrow always points in this direction.
What is the direction of energy flow?
This is the maximum number of individuals an environment can support, which humans often exceed.
What is the carrying capacity?
When plants release water vapor into the atmosphere from their leaves, the process is called this.
What is transpiration
This human-made structure is often built to prevent flooding and store water, though it can also disrupt local ecosystems.
What is a dam?