What is an organism that produces its own food from the energy of the sun.
100
Key components of a habitat that if missing can affect an organism's ability to survive.
What is limiting factors.
100
A group of interrelated food chains in a particular ecological community.
What is a food web.
100
The three phases of water.
What is a liquid, a gas, and a solid
100
Commonly known as marshes, bogs, swamps, wet meadows, and shallow ponds.
What is a wetland.
200
This is an organism that gains its energy by eating just plants.
What is a herbivore.
200
In the game Predator/Prey, organisms needed a certain amount of these in order to survive.
What is food, water, shelter.
200
In a pond Food Web, a frog is an example of a
What is a carnivore or consumer.
200
In the water cycle, this is the source of energy.
What is the sun.
200
Reasons why a wetland is important to the environment (give two).
What is improving water quality, recharging the ground water, providing flood control, and providing habitat for plants and animals.
300
This organism is a consumer.
What is an organism that eats both plants and animals.
300
A biological environment consisting of all the organisms living in a particular area,
What is an ecosystem.
300
Producers use this process to change light energy to chemical energy. Using the light from the sun, water gained from the roots, carbon dioxide from the air, and chlorophyll found in the cells, producers make their own energy through this process.
What is photosynthesis.
300
This is the part of the water cycle where heat changes water from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation.
300
Our local watershed and our regional watershed.
What is the Spring Creek Watershed and the Susquehana Watershed.
400
A biological community, including plants, animals, and microorganisms, considered together with its environment.
What is an ecosystem.
400
How do decomposers help an ecosystem?
What is decomposers break down dead organisms not eaten by scavengers, providing nutrients in the soil for plants.
400
This is the difference between a food chain and a food web.
What is a food chain follows a simple path as an organism gains energy from another. A food web shows how organisms are interconnected by different paths.
400
In plants, water changes from a liquid to a gas in this process.
What is transpiration.
400
The area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place
What is a watershed.
500
Organisms that live on dead organisms and never catch live food.
What is a scavenger.
500
A way an animal's body helps it survive, or live, in its environment. For example, beavers have a clear eyelid that protects their eyes and allows them to see in the water while they are swimming.
What is an adaptation.
500
If the wolf population is severely lessened this might happen.
What is the population of the consumers below the wolf will become overpopulated, causing an imbalance in the ecosystem.
500
When water vapor is cooled it does this.
What is condenses.
500
Watershed pollution can be traced specifically to a source such as a disposal site or leaking pipe. Another pollution source happens when pollutants are found in water running off of crops, parking lots and other lands.
What is point source and nonpoint source pollution.