This is the step of the water cycle that rain fits into
What is precipitation?
100
a tool used to help measure the temperature of the air.
What is a thermometer?
100
If there were less herbivores in an ecosystem, this level of organisms would increase.
What would be the producers?
100
part of the atom where protons and neutrons are located
What is the nucleus?
200
energy that is trapped in your food
What is chemical energy?
200
the wind blowing on the surface creates this current in the water
What is the surface current?
200
ecological community and its environment. All the abiotic and biotic factors in an area that is a "home" to many different plants and animals.
What is an ecosystem?
200
Activity that causes air pollution in the city.
What is cars, trucks, or factories that burn fossil fuels?
200
What is happening to the Earth when the level of CO2 goes up.
What is the global warming or climate change?
300
The energy of a roller coaster at the very top of the hill.
What is potential erergy?
300
This is the short term, day to day conditions of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
300
This is the name for a group of organisms that are all the same type of organism.
What is a population?
300
Organisms that get energy from eating other organisms.
What is the consumers?
300
This is the type of energy that we run all of our technology on.
What is electricity?
400
This is the type of fuel that comes from things that have died, GIVE TWO EXAMPLES!
What are fossil fuels-examples are coal, oil or natural gas
400
This is the long-term average weather of any area over many, many years.
What is climate?
400
the first organism to arrive during Primary Succession where there is only rock present.
What is a lichen?
400
Top of the food chain.
What is the predator?
400
part of the experiment that is changed or being tested
What is the independent variable?
500
Energy that allows a star to burn
What is nuclear energy
500
This is the part of the water cycle where water soaks into the ground.
What is infiltration?
500
the kind of succession that is the result of a natural event where most plant life has been destroyed but the soil remains in good shape.
What is secondary succession?
500
In an ecosystem, ferrets hunt prairie dogs and prairie dogs eat grass. One summer the number of prairie dogs decrease and so the amount of grass increases. What will happen to the ferrets?
What is they will decrease?
500
law which states "energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form."