Ecology
What is ecology?
The study of how living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things interact with each other in nature.
discovered the Three Laws of Motion
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
The five oceans
What are the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and Arctic Oceans?
largest creatures in the ocean
What are blue whales?
winner of Saturday's UVA game
Who are the Duke Blue Devils?
four basic natural resources every habitat must have
What are air, soil, water, and food?
built the first airplane
Who were Orville and Wilber Wright; the Wright Brothers?
tiny creatures that build coral reefs by secreting calcium carbonate, creating homes for many ocean creatures
What are coral polyps?
recycled plastic pellets
one of Mrs. Fields' three children
Caroline, Jackson, & Karis
three factors that cause animal populations to rise and fall
What are food, water, and shelter?
makes an object stop moving
What is another force such as friction?
sea creature that swims upright
What is a sea horse?
an insect that can fly backward
dragfly
What is a peppermint shake?
large areas on Earth that have certain climate, plants, and animals
What are biomes?
four forces of flight
What are lift, weight (gravity), thrust, and drag?
area between low and high tide where many animals live
What is the intertidal zone or the shore?
'yellow canary' of determining stream health
What are mayflies?
main characters in Zootopia 2
What is a nonrenewable resource?
A natural resource that cannot be replaced quickly once people use it up. It takes thousands upon thousands of years to form, so once it is gone, it is gone for a very long time.
Examples: oil, coal, natural gas, minerals like gold and iron
What is drag?
Drag is air pushing against an aircraft and slowing it down.
difference between swash and backwash
Swash is the water from a wave that rushes up the beach after the wave breaks. Backwash is the water that flows back down the beach into the ocean after the swash.
country that invented jet engines
What is Germany? (1930s)
ocean around the North Pole
What is the Arctic Ocean?
three fossil fuels
What are coal, crude oil, and natural gas?
shape that helps create lift so a plane can rise into the air
What is airfoil?
tiny floating plants and animals that live in the ocean
What are plankton? (Diatoms are plant-like plankton.)
the length of the first successful airplane flight
What is 12 seconds?
the number of Mondays you have off from ACTS for Christmas break
What are three Mondays?
What is a watershed?
A watershed is an area of land where all the water drains to the same place - like a river, lake, or ocean. It's like a big bowl. All the water that falls inside the bowl ends up in the same drain.
Newton's 1st Law of Motion
What is an object will stay at rest (or in motion) unless another force acts upon it?
a mollusk having a single shell
What is a univalve?
Newton's Law of Motion that means astronauts float in space
What is the First Law of Motion?
(Because there's no air resistance/friction to act upon them.)
UVA's mascot
What is the Cavalier Man?
What is the difference between lotic and lentic water?
Lotic water is flowing water; water that is always moving. Lentic water is still or standing water.
What is jet propulsion?
thrust
Christian fish symbol
What is the Ichthys?
the study of fish
What is ichthyology?
the length of your ACTS lunch
What is 20 minutes?
fascinating little creatures that live on the stream bottom
What are benthic macroinvertebrates?
benthic = "bottom dwelling"
macro = big enough to see without a microscope
invertebrates = animals with no backbone
principle that states faster moving air has lower pressure
What is Bernoulli's Principle?
two types of fish scales
What are cycloid (smooth & circular) and ctenoid (comb-like)?
hotter than the surface of the sun
What is lightning?
the names of the people in your class
Kind, Brave, Thoughtful, Hard Working, Attentive, Curious, Smart, Charming, Considerate, Respectful, Courageous, Artistic, Diligent, Funny
What is the greenhouse effect?
The greenhouse effect is when certain gases in Earth's atmosphere trap heat from the Sun. Gases like carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane act like a blanket, holding in warmth. Without it, Earth would be too cold.
three key parts of an internal combustion engine
What is: cylinder, spark plug, crank shaft, piston, or valves?
deepest part of the ocean
What is the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, reaching nearly 36,000 feet? Its lowest point is The Challenger's Deep.
water temperature where coral reefs grow
What is 65 degrees Fahrenheit or warmer
King of kings and Lord of lords
Jesus Christ