Food Webs/Food Chains
These types of animals only eat plants.
What is an herbivore?
This renewable natural resource is the key to all life on Earth and inspires the nickname "the blue planet".
What is water?
These areas of land and water are owned and managed by government agencies (like BLM and State Parks) for the public's use and enjoyment.
What are Public Lands?
The heat from this NR is the force that powers the water cycle.
What is the sun/ what is sunlight?
This sprawling tree once covered 1/3 of California and produces acorns, an important food source for many animals.
These types of animals eat both plants and animals.
What's an omnivore?
This category of NR can remake themselves within 100 years or less.
What is a renewable natural resource?
These are 3 different processes in the water cycle.
What is condensation, evaporation, precipitation (and/or transpiration)?
Water falling from a cloud in the form of rain, snow, or hail.
What is precipitation?
These evergreen trees are some of the largest and tallest in the world and can take in water from fog through their leaves.
What is a redwood tree?
This group of organisms makes their own food using sunlight. Includes plants, moss, and algae. Forms the large base of the energy pyramid.
What is a producer?
This category of NR cannot make more of itself within 100 years. Once they are used up by humans, we can't use them anymore.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
These 68,000 acres of protected land in Humboldt County were named the first National Conservation Area in 1970.
What is the King Range National Conservation Area?
Water heating up and changing from a liquid to a gas (water vapor).
What is evaporation?
This large, sleek marine mammal can sit upright and communicates in loud barks. Often found sunning themselves on rocks or piers.
What is a sea lion?
This group of organisms cannot make their own food and rely on eating other organisms for energy.
What's a consumer?
This NR group is made from decomposed swamp plants and animals that have broken down over 100,000 + years, is non-renewable, used to power machinery, make plastics and produce energy. When burned, they create air pollution.
What is a fossil fuel?
These outdoor guidelines help people make good decisions outdoors and include 1)Plan ahead and prepare 2)Travel and camp on durable surfaces 3)Dispose of waste properly 4)Leave what you find 5)Be careful with fire 6)Respect wildlife 7)Be kind to other travelers.
What are the Leave No Trace Principles?
Water drops grouping together, often forming clouds.
What is condensation?
This special fish is born in freshwater rivers, spends most of its life in the saltwater sea and then returns to complete its lifecycle in river it was born in.
What are salmon?
This group of organisms break down dead or decaying organic materials (plants, animals). Includes fungus, bacteria, vultures, earthworms and more.
What is a decomposer/detritivore?
These 8 main groups of natural resources and can be recalled by the acronym FAS-SWAMP.
What are Fossil Fuels, Air, Sunlight, Soil, Water, Animals, Minerals and Plants?
An area of land that drains all its streams and rainfall to a common outlet (large river, lake, ocean, etc.).
What is a watershed?
This is when plants release water back into the water cycle from their leaves.
What is transpiration?
This bird is the largest in North America. It almost was extinct but has been rescued by science and conservation and now has been rereleased into the wild.
What is the California condor?