Soil and Land Resources
What is the outer layer of the Earth’s surface is made of minerals, organic matter, water, and air.
What is soil?
What is the substance that covers about 70% of Earth’s surface?
What is water?
What Animals are not domesticated?
What is wildlife?
What are resources that replenish in a short time?
What are renewable resources?
What is the area of Earth that supports life, stretching from the crust to the atmosphere?
What is the biosphere?
WHat is the process happens when the upper layer of soil is washed or blown away?
What is erosion?
What is essential for animals to breathe and plants to perform photosynthesis?
What is oxygen/carbon dioxide
What is the protection and preservation of the natural environment?
What is conservation?
What are Minerals, and fossil fuels are examples of this type of resource?
What are nonrenewable resources?
What are organisms that make their own food using minerals, gases, and light energy?
What are autotrophs (or producers)?
What is covering much of the land, causing it to be no longer available for agriculture?
What are buildings, roads, and other man-made structures?
What resource is improved by planting trees and creating green spaces?
What is air quality?
What are the LIVING organisms referred to in an ecosystem called?
What are Biotic Factors
What types of energy are Biomass, biofuels, and geothermal energy are examples
What is renewable energy?
What are organisms that get energy by eating plants or animals?
What are consumers?
What percent of our land is covered by trees (forests)?
What is the term when substances are washed from surfaces into water sources?
What is runoff?
What are Forests maintained for Wildlife habitat and recreation, not production.
What are noncommercial forests?
What is the term for using up a supply or abundance of something?
What is depletion?
What is the range or variety of organisms within an ecosystem?
What is biodiversity?
Soil is a critical resource because it supports plants. What else is soil made up of?
What are organic matter, water, and air?
What is a resource found in the atmosphere, though not all of it is usable or reachable?
What is water?
What can disrupt natural cycles instead of protecting them?
What is overprotecting wildlife?
What are 3 examples of nonrenewable resources?
What are minerals, fossils fuels, natural gas
What are organisms like bacteria and fungi that break down dead tissue into organic matter?
What are decomposers?