This important resource continuously moves between the oceans, the atmosphere, and land, sometimes within living organisms.
What is water?
100
This is the network of feeding interactions among organisms.
What is the food web?
100
Water falling down in different forms, a part of the water cycle. An example is rain.
What is precipitation?
100
This is the element that is the key ingredient of living tissue and ecosystems.
What is carbon?
200
Heterotrophs
What is the name for organisms that eat other organisms for energy?
200
This is what we call water when it is in a solid state.
What is ice?
200
This is the term that describes the direction of the food web. We gain this by eating.
What is energy?
200
The day-to-day condition of Earth's atmosphere.
What is weather?
200
This is a very shiny metal that is used for wedding rings.
What is gold?
300
Biosphere
What is the term for describing life on a global scale?
300
Transpiration
What is a plant's version of perspiration?
300
These are organisms, like autotrophs, that have a low standing in the food web. An example is algae.
What are primary producers?
300
The average conditions over long periods.
What is Climate?
300
This is the element that we breathe every day.
What is oxygen?
400
Autotrophs
What are organisms that produce their own energy and do not need to eat?
400
This is one stage of the water cycle in which water molecules coalesce and form clouds.
What is condensation?
400
Animals that eat meat
What are omnivores?
400
This is the lateral line that describes the center of the earth. The climate around this line is very hot.
What is the equator?
400
This is the element that has only one proton in its outer shell.
What is hydrogen?
500
Biotic Factor
What is a living part of the environment?
500
This is the chemical formula for water.
What is H20?
500
These are organisms that convert dead material to detritus. An example is a raccoon.
What are decomposers?
500
This is the steady increase of earth's temperatures, as a result of a thinning ozone layer.
What is Global Warming?
500
This element is in the soil, air and water. It is taken up by primary producers, reused by consumers, and released by excretion and decomposing matter.