Ecostystem Vocab
Water Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Resources
Challenge Me
100
A community and its abiotic parts
What is an ecosystem?
100
Precipitation that has soaked into the ground
What is groundwater?
100
Cycle of elments that uses decomposers to help with plant growth
What is nitrogen cycle?
100
Resources that can be used again and again
What is reusable resources?
100
In the carbon dioxide - oxygen cycle, what goes into an animal and what is given off?
What is oxygen goes in and carbon dioxide is given off?
200
Living parts of the environment
What is biotic?
200
Fresh water that falls to Earth's surface
What is precipitation?
200
Nitrogen gas is turned into nitrogen compounds by using the bacteria in legumes, or by this
What is lightning?
200
Resources that are replaceable within a human life span
What is renewable resources?
200
In the carbon dioxide - oxygen cycle, what goes into a plant and what is given off?
What is carbon dioxide goes into the plant and oxygen and carbon dioxide is given off?
300
Nonliving parts of the environment
What is abiotic?
300
Process in which water turns into water vapor
What is evaporation?
300
This turns the nitrogen compounds back into a gas to return to the air
What is bacteria in the soil?
300
Resources that are not replaceable within a human life span
What is nonrenewable resources?
300
Can two populations of fish live in the same pond?
What is yes, if they have the same needs?
400
Many of the same species living together in the same place
What is population?
400
Process in which water vapor turns back into a liquid
What is condensation?
400
This happens to the dead animals before the bacteria converts the nitrogen into a gas
What is they decompose?
400
Gas, oil, and coal are all examples of this type of resource
What is nonrenewable resources?
400
Burning wood in a fire would be an example of this type of resource
What is renewable?
500
Role of an organism in an ecosystem
What is niche?
500
Process in which plants lose water to the air
What is transpiration?
500
Through what process is nitrogen returned to the atmosphere?
What is decomposition?
500
Which resource is reusable? A. paper B. oil C. water D. wheat
What is water?
500
Aluminum is reusable only if it is this
What is recycled?
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