Ecosystem
Climate Change
Sustainability
Extinctions
Miscellaneous
100
The study of the relationship between the biotic and abiotic factors of an environment
What is ecology?
100
Emit dust into the atmosphere and can reduce global temperatures
What is volcanoes?
100
Meeting the needs of the present and future
What is sustainability
100
Events of drastic changes in population levels of many species.
What is an extinction?
100
Very fragile ecosystems have low ___________.
What is biodiversity?
200
The food source of consumers
What are producers?
200
Species that are sensitive to changes to their ecosystem, so they are used as climate/environment change "detectors"
What is a bioindicator?
200
Give an example of a sustainable practice
Answers will vary
200
This is the number of major mass extinctions in the past
What is 5, we are now in the 6th
200
These are rare and significant changes in the way humans view the world.
What is paradigm shifts?
300
Animals that eat plans
What is herbivores?
300
The percentage of reflected light into space?
What is albedo?
300
A species that greatly affects the biodiversity of an ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
300
This is when the 6th extinction has started
What is the dawn of human agriculture?
300
This is why an ecosystem with low biodiversity is fragile
What is species' dependence
400
Places where species live
What is habitat?
400
Frogs are good bioindicators for this reason
What is they live in two ecosystems, aquatic and terrestrial
400
The diversity of living things in an ecosystem
What is biodiversity?
400
The maximum number of species capable of living in a habitat
What is carrying capacity?
400
This is an example of a paradigm shift
Answers will vary.
500
Waste from plants and animals, including their dead remains
What is detritus?
500
These are two sources of albedo
What is polar ice caps, volcanoes, snow, clouds, etc.
500
The wolf is a keystone species in its habitat for these 2 reasons:
What is regulates elk populations, tree populations, bird populations, etc...
500
This determines the carrying capacity of a habitat
What is amount of resources and waste accumulation?
500
Two possible causes for the 5th extinction
What is volcanism and extraterrestrial bolide?
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