HIPPCO
Levels of Organization
Food Webs/Food Chains
Biomes
Carbon/Nitrogen Cycle
100
The destruction of where animals live
What is Habitat Loss?
100
the largest level of organization, it includes all living and non-living components of the Earth, from the deepest oceans to the highest mountains.
What is Biosphere or the Earth?
100
The original source of energy in most ecosystems comes from
What is the sun?
100
the biome with the greatest biodiversity
What is the tropical rainforest?
100
the primary greenhouse gas released by human activities that affects the carbon cycle
What is Carbon Dioxide?
200
What is Climate Change?
200
all the living and non-living components in a specific area, such as a forest, desert, or lake.
What is an ecosystem?
200
can make their own food using sunlight in a process called photosynthesis
What is an autotroph?
What is a producer?
200
The specific climate along with the types of animals and plants found in the area
What is the characteristics of a Biome?
200
Oil, coal and gas that humans burn that releases CO2
What are fossil fuels?
300
an organism that causes ecological or economic harm in an area it is NOT native to
What is an Invasive Species?
300
all the different populations of different species that live in a specific area.
What is a community?
300
on organism rely on other organisms for their energy
What is a consumer?
300
The driest of all biomes because it receives little precipitation/rain. Plants here have to be able adapt and survive extreme dry conditions and have to collect AND store water and have shallow yet extensive roots. Animals that live here have adapted to the very dry conditions, such as the camel which store water in their bodies and don't sweat.
What is the Desert Biome?
300
How water moves on Earth through evaporation, condensation and precipation
What is the water cycle?
400
What is Overpopulation?
400
the individuals of the same species that live in a specific area.
What is a population?
400
show the flow of energy from producer to consumers using arrows.
What is a food web or food chain?
400
The summers are hot and dry but in the winter, temperatures stay around 30°F and are cool and moist allowing thickets of shrubs and small trees to grow. Many plants here have waxy leaves to retain moisture, as well as skinny leaves. Due to the type of vegetation in this biome, large grazing animals like elk and moose will be found here.
What is the Shrubland biome?
400
The decomposer responsible for putting nutrients, like nitrogen, back into the ecosystem
What is bacteria?
500
air, water and land are examples of this type of damage to the Earth
What is Pollution?
500
A herd of cattle
What is an example of a population?
500
The amount of energy that flows from trophic level to trophic level
What is the 10% rule?
500
Known for cold temperatures, animals like polar bears, arctic foxes and snow hares with little vegetation
What is the Tundra?
500
Breathing, factories and driving cars
What is ways that humans put carbon into the atmosphere?