Name that Cycle
Natural Disasters
Succession
Man
Bonus
100

This cycle shows the changes in which an ecosystem goes through due to changes in the weather or the changes in rainfall

Seasonal Changes
100
Rapid rise in water levels due to heavy rains.
Flooding
100
A group of different species living in the same area.
Community
100

Called this, when the air or environment around an ecosystem suddenly changes and makes the area uninhabitable. 

Pollution

100
This species is beginnig to move into the polar bear's habitat and competing with it because of changes from global warming.
Brown bear
200

The water cycle has these 4 stages.

Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and transpiration

200

This natural disaster has no exact beginning or end.

Drought

200
List the three characteristics of a pioneer species.
1) First species to move into an area 2) Must be producers 3) Help form soil
200

What happened when the puffins became endangered, which caused laws to regulate the laws of this.

excessive hunting and fishing

200

Pioneer species observed at CHESS Christian School.

Grass

300

This cycle is the cycle of plants and animals and the essential element that they need along with Oxygen and is seen in the process when plants take this in, people and decayed organisms release this, and the cycle continues.

Carbon cycle

300
Natural disaster caused by movements in the Earth's crust.
Earthquake
300

True or false, ecosystems always recover slowly from disturbances.

False

300

The term for a species that no longer has life on the earth

Extinct

300
The addition of sediment due to water or wind.
Deposition
400

This cycle take a compound that is transformed by lightening or bacteria into compounds that are usable for organic life.

Nitrogen cycle

400

The most recent natural disaster in Puerto Rico.

Hurricane Maria

400
The replacement of one community of organisms by another community of organisms.
Succession
400

The type of organism that comes into a new ecosystem and disrupts the natural chain.

Invasive species

400
Name a species of animal that can physically change its environment by building structures.
Beavers or humans
500

How are dead leaves important to a cycle and which cycle are they important to.

The carbon cycle because dead leaves are decomposed which releases carbon into the environment for plants to take in.

500
This volcano erupted in 1980, leaving a 13 mile radius of destruction.
Mt. St. Helens
500

The removal of sediments by wind or water.

Erosion

500

Name an example of an invasive species.

Rats in hawaii, water hyathinths in China, et.

500

Term that describes the release of carbon by a plant, animal, or human.

Respiration

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