Club Info
The day Environmental Club meets on
What is every other Wednesday?
The Minnesota state bird
The type of organism that eats plants and animals
What is omnivore?
The greenhouse gas released by burning fossil fuels
What is carbon dioxide?
Two parts of the water cycle
What are evaporation, condensation, precipitation, infiltration, percolation, runoff, sublimation, transpiration
Environmental Club's teacher advisor
Who is Mrs. McIntyre?
Minnesota's state butterfly
What is the Monarch?
Soil pH is a biotic factor in an ecosystem.
T or F
What is false?
Two examples of climate change
What are melting glaciers, rising sea levels, temperature rises, increased natural disasters, etc
Names of four oceans
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Southern, Arctic and Indian?
The classroom number Environmental Club meets in
What is A417?
The state flower
What is the lady slipper orchid?
The maximum population size that an environment can sustain
What is carrying capacity?
The effect when a layer of gases surrounding the earth hold the sun's heat and warm the earth
What is the greenhouse effect?
The percent of water available for human use.
What is less than 1%?
The cost of Environmental Club
What is free?
The animal not native to Minnesota.
a. lynx
b. black bear
c. snow leopard
d. mountain lion
What is c. snow leopard?
The species type that is the first organism to colonize a barren area to initiate ecological succession.
a. Keystone Species
b. Pioneer Species
c. Endangered Species
d. Indicator Species
What is b. Pioneer Species?
The processes where carbon removed from the atmosphere and stored in vegetation, soil, or oceans
a. Carbon capture and storage (CCS)
b. Carbon sequestration
c. Carbon pricing
d. Carbon offsetting
What is b. Carbon sequestration?
President who enacted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970
Who is Richard Nixon?
Our next meeting's activity
What is gooseberry bush planting & garden maintenance?
The endangered species we are centering our garden around
What is the rusty patched bumblebee?
The type of symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits, and the other is neither harmed nor helped.
What is commensalism?
Five types/sources/methods of renewable energy
Hydroelectric dams, solar panels, geothermal energy, nuclear energy, biomass, hydrogen, tidal energy, wave energy, turbines
The biome of Hennepin County
What is dedicious forest?