Water
Energy
Terms/Definitions
Species
Misc.
100
Most toxins in water come from this type of pollution.
What is non-point source pollution?
100
Examples of this type of energy. Coal Oil Natural Gas
What is nonrenewable energy?
100
Water found in the spaces of soil, gravel, and rock.
What is groundwater?
100
An example of this is ticks feeding on the blood of a mouse.
What is parasitism?
100
Country with the largest number of people.
What is China?
200
Overnourishment of of aquatic ecosystems with plant nutrients because of human activities.
What is cultural eutrophication?
200
What type of spill happened at Chernobyl?
What is nuclear?
200
The belief that wild species have an inherant right to exist.
What is intrinsic value?
200
In 1995, this species was introduced into the Yellowstone National Park.
What is the gray wolf?
200
deprives the downstream areas of nutrients destroys agricultural land and scenic areas inhibits the migration of fish controls water supplies
What is a dam?
300
An area valuable for: filtering toxic wastes and pollutants absorbing excess water from storms water fowl habitat
What are wetlands?
300
Examples of this type of energy: solar wind geothermal
What is renewable energy?
300
Variety of different species, genetic variability, and a variety of ecosystems.
What is biodiversity?
300
The relationship between a clownfish and an anemone.
What is mutualism?
300
The most important factor in determining which biome is found in a particular area.
What is climate?
400
This cycle is greatly affected by the following: draining wetlands withdrawl from streams, lakes, and rivers clearing vegetation for agriculture
What is the hydrologic cycle?
400
Heat transfer from the earth's underground concentrations of dry steam, wet steam, or hot water trapped in fractured or porous rock. (Type of energy)
What is geothermal energy?
400
responsible for collecting, purifying, recycling, and distributing water.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
400
A type of species that is: likely to become endangered declining in numbers still abundant in it's natural range
What is a threatened species?
400
A DNA change as a result of: Ultraviolet light X Rays Certain Chemicals Radioactivity
What is a mutation?
500
Part of an ocean that lies beyond the continental shelf.
What is the open sea?
500
Multiple nuclear fissions.
What is a chain reaction?
500
Breakup of a habitat into smaller peices, usually as a result of human activities. i.e. roads
What is habitat fragmentation?
500
An interaction that benefits one species but has little, if any, effect on the other.
What is commensalism?
500
The burning of fossil fuels and removal of forests has greatly interfered with this cycle.
What is the carbon cycle?
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