Our Animals
Our Plants
Consumer, Producer
or Scavenger?
Our Ecocolumns
Pollution
100

These were the two animals we put in our terrariums.

What are pill bugs and crickets?

100

In order for our plants to germinate they need warm temperature and this.  

What is water?

100

Pill Bugs.

What are scavengers?

100

All energy stored in food started as energy from this. 

What is the sun?

100

These two letters represent the unit to measure the acidity of soil and water.

What is pH?

200

These were the two types of animals we put in our aquariums. 

What are snails and mosquito fish?

200

Plants add this to our eco columns that are necessary for our animals to breathe.  

What is oxygen?

200

Crickets and fish.

What are consumers?

200

These are two non-living parts of your aquarium.

What are rocks and water?

200

This is how acid water effects plant growth.

It destroys it?

300

The part of the crickets body that does the same job as fins for a fish.

What are legs?

300

This is why we planted our grass seeds a week before our crickets arrived.

What is so that they had food and shelter?

300

Elodea, grass, and duckweed.

What are producers?

300

Making a prediction like:  Putting fertilizer in our terrariums will kill the plants is known as making this.

What is a hypothesis?

300
Water becoming to acidic, eggs of aquatic animals not hatching, chemicals being released from soil are all caused by this. 

What is acid rain?

400

Of antennae, legs, hands, and thorax this is the body part that crickets and isopods do not have in common.

What is thorax?

400

This supports most life in the Chesapeake Bay.

What are water grasses?

400

Snails.

What are scavengers?

400

The water from terrarium drains into the aquarium.  That means our terrariums act as this, just like the Chesapeake Bay.

What is a water shed?

400

DAILY DOUBLE!!!!

When too much of this is added to an aquatic ecosystem (from farms) it can result in algae blooms, overcrowded plants and oxygen being used up.  

500

Fish use this part of their body to breathe.

What are gills?

500
Most plants are green because they contain this pigment.  

What is chlorophyll?

500

This is the difference between a consumer and producer.  

Consumers eat other organisms, producers make their own food?

500

When we conducted our pollution experiment, one thing was changed in my ecocolumn while your ecocolumns were unchanged.  The parts of an experiment that are unchanged are known as this. 

What are constants?

500

Acid rain is formed when water in the air mixes with this nonrenewable resource as it burns.

What are fossil fuels?

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