Ecosystems
The living things in an ecosystem are called...
What are biotic factors?
Three things that happen at plate boundaries.
What are volcanoes, earthquakes, and mountain ranges?
The earth's crust is broken into pieces called __________.
What are plates?
Which of the following is not a biotic factor? Penguin, Grass, Sunlight, Tree
What is sunlight?
The nonliving things in an environment are called...
What are abiotic factors?
The type boundary formed when two plates pull apart allowing magma from the mantle to rise and create new crust.
What is a divergent boundary?
The movement of plates is called ______________.
What is plate tectonics?
Two plates collide, the heavier oceanic crust sinks to the mantle where it melts, pushing the continental crust upward to create mountains and/or volcanoes. What type of boundary is this?
What is a convergent boundary?
The slow rebirth of an ecosystem after it has been destroyed (usually by a natural disaster).
What is succession?
The type of boundary formed when two plates collide and the heavier oceanic crust sinks to the mantle where it melts and pushes the continental crust upward to create mountains and/or volcanoes.
What is a convergent boundary?
Why is Earth called the Blue Planet?
What is because it is made up of 70% water?
Two plates slide past one another. What type of boundary is this?
What is a transform boundary?
If all of the mice in a forest ecosystem were to die what would happen to the other organisms in the ecosystem?
What is the hawks would starve because they don't have food to eat and the plants that mice eat would overpopulate?
What type of mountains are formed when cracks in the land shift up and down due to plate movement?
What are fault block mountains?
A visual graphic showing several food chains within an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
What percent of Earth's water is freshwater?
What is 3%?
Explain two impacts rapid earth changes has on an ecosystem.
What is killing animals, destroying habitats, contaminating saltwater and freshwater, etc?
What type of mountains are formed when one plate pushes into another, forcing them together and upward?
What are folded mountains?
What is one positive and one negative impact humans have on ecosystems?
What is ____________?
What percent of Earth's freshwater do we have access to?
What is 1%?