Vocab
Biomes
Food Chains
Interactions
Random
100
What is a niche?
An organism's role in their environment
100
List 3 environmental abiotic factors.
Sun, precipitation, oxygen, rocks, soil, etc.
100
What does a food chain always have to start with?
producers (plants)
100
What is the only way to remove carbon dioxide from the environment?
Photosynthesis
100
Plants take in __ and give off ___:
carbon dioxide / oxygen
200
What is a pioneer species
The first organism to colonize a new area
200
What are 3 environmental impacts of our biomes?
Overfishing, deforestation, farming, pollution
200
How much energy is available for the next trophic level? What is the other energy lost as?
10% and lost as heat
200
There is a puddle because the cat probably knocked over the cup: is an observation, inference, hypothesis, theory.
inference
200
What do each of the following mean:
evaporation
condensation
precipitation
runoff
Evaporation: liquid to gas
condensation: gas to liquid
precipitation- falling liquid
runoff- movement of water on the ground
300
Where would we find: biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere, hydrosphere.
Biosphere- planet earth
Atmosphere- air
Geosphere- ground
Hydrosphere- water
300
This biome has high precipitation and warm temperatures.
What is tropical rainforest
300
give one energy interaction in this food web: 
answer will vary
300
Give me an example of each type of relationship: mutualistic, parasitic, commensalism, predation.
mutual: :) :)
parasitic: :) :(
commensalism: :) :I
predation: :) :(
300
What is the building block of a protein?
Amino Acid
400
What is are 2 differences between primary and secondary succession?
Soil vs no soil
primary takes longer
400
This biome has the 4 seasons and average rainfall.
What is grassland or deciduous forest.
400
How do producers make their own food?
The sun
400
How does pouring chemicals down a storm drain affect the water cycle?
Pollutes every thing.
400
What is the difference between transcription and translation.
C- makes RNA
L- reads rna to make a protein
500
What is an invasive species and why are they harmful?
A non-native organism that doesn't have any predators so they take over the food chain.
500
Why is biodiversity important?
It increases variety and response to environmental changes
500
Explain how pesticides and chemicals move up the food chain.
What is the small animals eat it, then they get eaten and it is in their body, and it keeps moving up, until it is eaten by an apex predator.
500
What would be a limiting factor for a population?
Food, space, water, predators
500
When ATP is used, the P leaves turning ATP into
ADP