Ecosystems Interactions
Clue: This is a group of living and non-living things interacting in a specific area.
Answer: What is an ecosystem?
Clue: This is the average of a set of numbers.
Answer: What is the mean?
Clue: This is the measure of how hot or cold something is.
Answer: What is temperature?
Clue: This decimal is equivalent to the fraction 1/2.
Answer: What is 0.5?
Clue: This layer of the Earth is the thin outer surface where we live.
Answer: What is the crust?
Clue: Animals like wolves, hawks, and bears that eat other animals belong to this feeding group.
Answer: What are carnivores?
Clue: This is the most frequently occurring value in a data set.
Answer: What is the mode?
Clue: Heat always moves from ______ objects to _____ objects.
Answer: What is warmer (higher temperature) to colder (lower temperature)?
Clue: This percent is equivalent to the fraction 1/4.
Answer: What is 25%?
Clue: These moving sections of Earth’s crust slowly shift and cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
Answer: What are tectonic plates?
Clue: Plants belong to this group of organisms that make their own food using sunlight.
Answer: What are producers?
Clue: This is the difference between the highest and lowest numbers in a data set.
Answer: What is the range?
Clue: Heat transfer through direct contact, like when a metal spoon gets hot in soup, is called this.
Answer: What is conduction?
Clue: This decimal is equal to 75%.
Answer: What is 0.75?
Clue: The process where wind, water, or ice breaks rock into smaller pieces is called this.
Answer: What is weathering?
Clue: When one organism benefits and the other is harmed, this type of symbiotic relationship is occurring.
Answer: What is parasitism?
Clue: If you flip a fair coin, the probability of getting heads is this fraction.
Answer: What is 1/2?
Clue: This type of heat transfer happens when warm air rises and cool air sinks.
Answer: What is convection?
Clue: If a $40 item is discounted by 25%, this is the amount of the discount.
Answer: What is $10?
Clue: This process moves weathered rock and soil from one place to another.
Answer: What is erosion?
Clue: If wolves (apex species) disappear from an ecosystem, describe some likely results.
Answer: A trophic cascade would occur, leading to imbalance in the ecosystem - meaning the population of herbivores (prey) would increase, leading to more grazing of plants, causing widespread impacts to all trophic levels. This is a less healthy ecosystem.
Clue: A bag contains 3 red, 2 blue, and 5 green marbles. The probability of drawing a blue marble is this fraction.
Answer: What is 2/10 (or 1/5)?
Clue: Describe the particles in terms of arrangement and movement in a gas.
Answer: A gas has particles that have more kinetic energy and are spread further apart.
Clue: If 30% of a class of 20 students prefer pizza, this is the number of students.
Answer: What is 6 students?
Clue: When sediments are squeezed and cemented together over time, this type of rock forms.
Answer: What is sedimentary rock?