Weathering and Erosion
The breaking of rocks into smaller pieces.
Bonus - Which step in the 3 step process is this?
Weathering
Bonus - The 1st step
Very large boulders do not break down over time; only smaller ones do. True of False?
False
This is the process that plants use to make food.
Photosynthesis.
True or False.
Humans are producers.
False. We do not create our own food.
Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?
BONUS - What year was this President Elected?
Abraham Lincoln
Bonus - 1860
The natural process of eroded material being dropped off in another place, laying down a deposit of something (sediment).
Deposition.
Acid rain dissolves this type of rock which commonly leaves behind caves and caverns. We have many of these in our area.
Limestone.
What is an apex predator?
The animal at the top of the food chain, it has no natural predators.
How is a food web different from a food chain?
Food webs contain many different, linked food chains.
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Bonus - Where is the location that this happened?
Fort Sumter
Bonus - Charleston, SC
Repeated heating and cooling of rocks will induce stress breakage.
Thermal Expansion.
The scientific instrument that measures the size of an earthquake.
BONUS - What is the name of the SCALE that is used once the data from this instrument is gathered?
Seismograph
Bonus - The Richter Scale
Where does a producer get it's food?
How are primary consumers different from secondary consumers?
Primary consumers eat only plants, secondary consumers eat other consumers.
Who was the famous abolitionist who went back several times to rescue many slaves using a system called the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
The process of weathered rock moving from one place to another.
Erosion.
This area in the Pacific is where the majority of the world's volcanos and earthquakes occur.
The Ring of Fire
Where does a consumer get its food?
A consumer eats producers and other consumers for food.
Sun > acorn tree > squirrel > fox > wolf
Sun > grass > deer > coyote > wolf
In the above food web, what would happen to the squirrel population if you took the coyote out of the food web?
The squirrel population would go up because the foxes would be the main food source of the wolf, which would leave less foxes to eat the squirrels.
Who was the president of the Confederate states?
Jefferson Davis
Water enters cracks in the rocks, freezes and expands and breaks the rocks.
BONUS POINTS: WHAT IS THE FREEZING TEMPERATURE OF WATER? (ferenheit)
Ice/Frost wedging.
Bonus - 32 degrees.
Chemical processes dissolve and decay earth materials (rust, acid rain).
Chemical weathering.
Sun > Grass > Rabbit > Snake > Hawk
In the above food web, what would happen to the rabbit and the grass population if all snakes went away?
The rabbit population would go up but the grass population would go down.
Sun > Grass > Vole > Fox > Coyote > Wolf
Sun > Grass > Rabbit > Fox > Coyote > Wolf
In the above food web, what would happen to the Coyote population if the Vole population is wiped out because of disease?
The coyote population would decrease because the fox population would eventually wipe out the rabbit population, which would result in a decrease in the population of foxes, which would result in a decrease in the coyote population.
What was the name of the newspaper started by abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison?
The Liberator