Vocabulary
An organism gets food, water, shelter, and other items from its environment that it needs to live, grwo and reproduce. What are these needs called.
What is resources?
Organisms that use outside energy source, such as the Sun, and produce their own food
What are producers?
What is the name of the third chapter we covered?
Bonus - What does THAT mean?
Bonus - Give me the 4 cycles we covered?
What is cycles of matter?
Bonus - Recycyling of matter through all ecosystems.
Bonus - Water, Oxygen, Carbon & Nitrogen
Living and once-living parts of an ecosystem.
What is biotic factors?
The burning of this caused smog formation, acid rain, and an increase in CO2.
What is burning fossil fuels?
An environment that provides things a SPECIFIC organism needs to live, grow, abd reproduce is called this.
What is habitat?
What are consumers?
Despite being 78% of the atmosphere, organisms typically cannot use the gas from.
What is nitrogen.
The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic factors?
This process is commonly used for plastic and paper items to avoid them ending up in a landfill.
What is recycling?
The number of indivuals in an area of a specific size.
Bonus - How many points are a PD problem worth in Ms. Fisher's class?
What is population density?
Bonus - What is 5?
Bonus - Walk me through the 5 points?
Simplist way to show how energy is flowing directly from one organism to another.
What is food chain?
Every organism requires this for every process that takes place in cells and tissues.
What is water?
Vocabulary term for when an organism moves IN to a population.
Bonus - Vocabulary term for when an organism moves OUT of a popultion.
What is Immigration?
What is Emigration?
When humans clear forests to create farmland or use the lumber for wood or fuel, what can happen to the cycles?
Increase in C02
All the populations living in an ecosystem at the same time.
What is a community?
Complex model that shows how energy is transferred throughout an ecosystem.
What are food webs?
This cycle involves two different compounds that are exchanged amongst organisms.
What is the oxygen and carbon dioxide cycle?
An environmental factor that causes a population to stop growing or decrease in size such as a fatal disease infecting organisms is called a____________
What is limiting factor?
What happens if we mess with ONE of the cycles?
Bonus - What could also happen?
Things are UNBALANCED - Massively affect the ecosystem.
What if it is TOO UNBALANCED?
Matter is neither created or destroyed during any physical or chemical change.
Bonus - Another law similar to this.
What is the Law of COnservation of Mass (Matter)?
Bonus - What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
Models that show the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain.
What are energy pyramids?
States that matter cannot be created or destroyed, but it can change form.
What is the law of conservation of matter?
Give me an example of a limiting factor.
Bonus - Tell me ALL 6 limiting factors we discussed in class and listed in the book.
Students answers will vary.
Bonus - Food & Water, Climate & Weather, Space & Shelter.
Come to the board and draw ANY of the cycles - EXCEPT water cycle!
Student drawings will vary.