Vocab
Food Web vs Food Chain
A food web is a system made up of multiples consumers and producers. A food chain is a direct, who eats who.
How much of the Earth is covered in water?
71%
What are the planets listed in order?
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
What are the three types of rocks?
Igneous, Sedimentary, and Metamorphic
Who all makes up a food chain?
Energy source, producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, tertiary consumer, decomposers.
Deforestation
Permanent clearing of forested land, largely driven by agricultural expansion, logging, and infrastructure development
Where is the largest supply of freshwater found?
It is found in glaciers, ice caps, and underground.
What is the largest planet?
Jupiter
What are the three types of boundaries?
Divergent, Convergent and Transform
What is the difference between abiotic and biotic items?
Abiotic is the nonliving factors within an ecosystem, whereas biotic items are the living factors within an ecosystem.
Ecosystem
A community of living organisms
What is the difference between transpiration and evaporation?
Evaporation is when liquid water from bodies of water (like oceans) turns into gas.
Transpiration is specifically when plants release water vapor through tiny pores in their leaves.
What is the coldest planet?
Uranus
Where do volcanoes form?
Along plate boundaries
What are the three types of relationships within ecosystems
Mutualism, Commensalism and Parasitism
Convection currents
When the hot magma rises to the surface and spreads out, then sinks down as it cools off.
What would happen to the cycle if the Sun were removed?
The cycle would stop. Without the Sun's heat, there would be no evaporation or transpiration, and eventually, most water would freeze.
What are the three types of planet classifications?
Jovian and Terrestrial
Show me how two of the three types of tectonic plate boundaries move.
Divergent (apart)
Convergent (colliding)
Transform (sliding past)
If you had a bare hill, meaning it has no plants, shrubs or trees planted along it. How would you replant it to help with the distribution of rain waters?
You would need to start at the top with larger trees, coming down add smaller shrubs until you can plant it with grasses along the bottom and close to your waterway edges.
Subduction
When one tectonic plate sinks beneath another
Does the total amount of water on Earth change? Explain.
No. The water cycle is a continuous, closed system; the Earth has been recycling the same water for billions of years.
What is the difference between Jovian and Terrestrial planets?
Terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are small, rocky, dense inner planets close to the Sun with solid surfaces, thin atmospheres, and few moons.
Jovian planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) are massive, gaseous outer "gas giants" with low density, thick hydrogen/helium atmospheres, numerous moons, and ring systems.
What drives the rock cycle
Tectonic plate movements
What is the importance of diversity?
More diversity = less chance of losing a whole ecosystem