Energy Transfer
The enviroment can be grouped from the smallest to the largest.
What is considerided to be the smallest grouping?
The smallest grouping is an Individual
What percent of the world is covered by water?
71% of the worlds surface is covered by water
What determines where an animal/plant live
Tempature,climate,sunlight,oxygen,availible nutrients
what is the safe drinking water act
This act is meant to protect the worlds safe drinking water
What are primary producers
they are what produce the food that start the food chain
What is the deffiniton of species
Species is classfying the individual as an organism
List three differnt types of places that water resides at
Lakes,Ponds,Rivers,and Oceans
what is the deepest ocean in the world
The pacific ocean
What is the Endangered species act
The Endangered species act is meant to protect endangered species,Threated species,and natrual habitats
what is the lowest level in the food chain
Soils and decomposers
The meaning of the word population
Population is a group of the same species living in the same area
What percent of earths water is salt water
97%
WHat percent of lakes are polluted in the U.S
40% of lakes and rivers are polluted in the U.S
what is Rivers and Harbor apropiation
a program to regulate activities affecting navigation in United States waters, including wetlands
What is a secondary consumer?
A carnivore that feeds only upon herbivores
The deffiniton of a Community
Community are the many differnt populations living in the same area
What percent of earths water is fresh water
3%
What is a lake ?
A lake is a body of fresh water that is entirely surrounded by land
The Clean Water act
sets the standards for drinking water quality and monitors states, local authorities, and water suppliers who enforce those standards
What is a primary consumer
a primary consumer is what eats the producers
All the levels interacting together to make up earths living region
What is the Biosphere
About how many organisims live in the ocean
there is about 1 million species that reside in the ocean
The deffiniton of a stream ?
A body of running freshwater they typically flow downhill.
What is the deffiniton of the clean water act
restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters
What is the name of an organisim at the top of a food chain
Teritary consumers