All of the living and nonliving things in nature are called what?
What is an environment?
100
How would a Burmese python population that drastically increases affect the native organism in the Everglades?
a) make it easier for native organisms
b) make it more difficult for native organisms to survive
What is make it more difficult for native organisms to survive.
100
What is an example of a natural disaster that is common to experience in Florida?
What is a hurricane?
100
A harmful substance that gets into the environment that can kill organisms or cause disease is called _________________
What is pollutiion?
100
A plant or animal that has a unique trait or characteristic that helps an organism survive is called a ______________.
What is an adaptation?
200
When living things interact with each other, they are called a what?
What is a community
200
A __________________ can cause long-term environmental changes by blowing gas and dust into the sky and blocking the suns rays.
What is a volcano.
200
Humans who participate in "open-pit" mining to get phosphate in Florida are showing what?
a) how natural disasters can change ecosystems
b) how humans can change ecosystems
c) how organisms can change ecosystems
What is "how humans can change ecosystems"?
200
A _________________ uses its teeth to cut down trees and build dams across streams that can effect the environment around them.
What is a beaver?
300
A community of living and nonliving things around them are all called an ___________________?
What is ecosystem?
300
Would a beaver dam or rising sea level have a greater threat to a coral reef?
What is rising sea level?
300
An ice age is an example of a __________________ that happens over a long period of time.
What is an ice age.
300
True or False: All living things are affected when their environments change?
What is true?
300
A cactus plant is most likely found in a climate that is _________ and _________?
What is dry and hot.
400
Which one of these would be most harmful to the air that we breathe?
a) what is roasting marshmallows over a fire while camping
b) what is swimming in the ocean
c) burying toxic waste
d) riding in a hot-air balloon
What is burying toxic waste?
400
Doubling a human population in a community would
a) provide fewer resources
b) provide protection
c) destroy more animal habitats
What is destroy more animal habitats?
400
Air - respiratory system - circulatory system - cells shows the path of this entering the body.
What is oxygen?
400
Extinction is a reality that has happened to various animals and plants over time. What do you think is the leading cause of extinction for these organisms?
a) weather & climate changing
b) natural disasters
c) habitat destruction
What is habitat destruction?
400
What animal has special glands that help them excrete excess salt and helps them survive in marsh areas?
What is a flamingo?
500
What happens over time to the population size of an organism if invaded by another organism?
What is decrease or get smaller.
500
When an organism cannot adapt to a new environment, what might the organism do?
a) reproduce
b) move to a new location
c) change its body features to adapt to new environment
What is move to new location?
500
A long period without rain is called a____________?
What is a drought?
500
_________________________ happens when people work together to protect their environment and protect habitats of organisms.
What is conservation?
500
This was discovered and has saved many lives by killing bacteria that caused diseases.