Vocabulary
What does biotic mean?
Anything that is considered living
Anything made up of cells
What is the process in which igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are converted into one another in stages called?
Rock Cycle
The two most significant abiotic factors that influence life in a biome are?
Temperature and precipitation
What are some indicators of air pollution?
Carbon dioxide
Smog
Acid Rain
What is an independent variable?
A variable we change in an experiment.
What does biodiversity mean?
A variety of species coexisting in a single ecosystem.
Which substance is a mixture of organic matter and weathered rock?
Soil
You have short grasses, open fields, and buffalo and prairie dogs. What biome do you have?
Grasslands
What are two greenhouse gasses present in our atmosphere that help trap heat from the Sun's radiation?
Carbon dioxide and methane
What is a dependent variable?
A variable that is measured during an experiment.
What is a biome?
An ecosystem defined by the weather and the interactions between living and non-living things.
What is the difference between mechanical and chemical weathering?
Mechanical weathering is when there is physical impact or abrasion done against rock. Chemical weathering is when chemicals or toxins are used to break down rocks.
You are near the northern regions of Russia, experience permafrost, and have snow leopards and caribou in your lands. What biome are you?
Tundra
Which human activity has most negatively affected air quality?
Burning coal
What is a constant?
A variable that remains the same for each trial.
What is pollution?
The contamination of our environment.
What graph experiences unlimited growth and no limiting factors?
Exponential Graph
You experience low rainfall, high temperature, and have yucca trees and cacti as your plants. What biome are you?
Desert
What component of smog do humans have the least control over?
A student is conducting an investigation to determine the effect of water temperature on the amount of sugar that dissolves in a beaker of water. What is the independent variable?
The water temperature
What are greenhouse gases?
What are the 3 major types weathering?
Weathering, Erosion, and Deposition
You experience 4 seasons, have a variety of different trees (hickory, oak, maple), and have deer and wolves. What biome are you?
Temperate Forest
Which reason best accounts for these changes during the time period in the table above?
Laws and policies were enacted that limited the output of certain pollutants.
Sally is testing how different types of beans will grow during a whole month. She uses 4 types of beans and measures their growth each week. She gives the plants the same soil, same amount of water, and same amount of sunlight. What are your constants?
The amount of soil, water and sunlight.