What is the cycle of processes by which water circulates between the earth's oceans, atmosphere, and land, involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers, and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
100
Light Energy
The energy that is formed from the sun?
100
Cane Toads
In the 1930's which animal was introduced into Australia to keep beetles from eating goods from cane-famers?
100
A living organism
What is a Biotic?
200
The total quantity of living matter in a given area or ecosystem.
What is a Biomass?
200
The Nitrogen Cycle
What is the series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition.
200
Heat
What is a form of energy that is transferred by a difference in temperature?
200
To reduce Cane Toad population.
Why was the rabbit introduced to Australia?
200
Primarily marine organisms, single-celled or multicellular, that use chlorophyll to feed, like plants, but lack the roots, leaves, flowers, etc. of true plants.
What is Algae?
300
How living things change what they do or what they are to survive in a particular environment. In this the organism is not a passive recipient of external circumstances; the relationship is interactive.
What is Adaption?
300
The Carbon Cycle
What is the series of processes by which compounds are interconverted in the environment, involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels.
300
Kinetic Energy
What is the energy source formed from the body?
300
The Foxes
What animal was introduced to Australia to get reduce the population of the rabbits?
300
Plants that can produce their own food.
What is a Producer?
400
The variety of organisms in a given habitat or location.
What is Alpha Diversity?
400
Photosynthesis
What is the process where plants covert light energy into chemical energy or fuel?
400
Chemical Energy
An energy absorbed in the formation of a chemical compound, is known as?
400
Because the eat 80% of the vegetation.
Why are Camels such a pest in Australia?
400
An organism that eats dead organic matter.
What is a Decomposer?
500
A cell that eats and digest debris and invading micro-organisms.
What is a Scavenger?
500
Phosphorous Cycle
What cycle is the biogeochemical cycle that describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere?
500
Potential Energy
What is the energy that positions itself in accordance to the arragement of the particles?
500
They were used for transportation of construction materials to build Central and Western Australia.
Why were Camels introduced to Australia?
500
A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment.