The reason why using pesticides can be a problem is______
What is it can kill other insects (such as pollinators) that are not pests
100
Which mining method causes the most destruction to habitats, pollution, and erosion?
What is mountaintop removal?
100
Increase in carbon dioxide
What increases atmospheric temperature?
200
name 4 hinge bones
elbow,knee,toes,fingers
200
This happens when poison and toxins like mercury end up increasing in concentration inside consumers
What is biomagnification?
200
In state forests and parks containing varieties of flowering trees and shrubs, there are signs that say “Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints.” These signs are necessary because
What is humans can destroy habitats when taking trees and shrubs
200
The Rocky Mountains are known for beautiful scenery. Which processes of the Rocky Mountains most likely required the longest period of time to occur?
What is large uplift of the land from tectonic forces?
200
RANDOM FUN! Water, oxygen, energy, and food can all be considered as
What are limiting factors?
300
how many bones are in a skull
8
300
This will happen if all the predators are removed in an ecosystem
There will be an increase in herbivores and possibly shortage of producers.
300
Some people make compost piles consisting of weeds and other plant materials. When the compost has decomposed, it can be used as fertilizer. The production and use of compost is an example of
What is "The recycling of nutrients"?
300
Why do we need to the ozone layer?
It protects us from the sun's UV rays
300
This is why global warming has made life more difficult to polar bears
What is polar bears are forced to swim farther distances?
400
how many bones are in a skeleton
206
400
Draw a carrying capacity curve.
A representative from the team will draw the graph on the whiteboard
400
In extreme cases, eutrophication can lead to extremely low levels of oxygen in a body of water as decomposers break down all the dead producers, a condition called
What is hypoxia?
400
Teeth and shells from dead organisms can become minerals because they
What is "are formed by organisms under high temperature and pressure"?
400
This caused London's "killer smog"
What is temperature inversion?
500
suffix
legal
illegal
500
Abandoned railroad tracks are overgrown with weeds. Ten years later there are small aspen trees growing in the middle of the tracks. This change is an example of
What is ecological succession?
500
Some farmers currently grow genetically engineered crops. An argument against the use of
this technology is that
we still do not know all the effects of genetically engineering crops
500
Fossil fuels are seen by some scientists as a temporary energy source. Why are scientists motivated to find other sources of energy?
Fossil fuels take millions of years to form.
500
How was the Kyoto Protocol an improvement over the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?
What is "The Kyoto Protocol was binding, not voluntary"?