Systems
This is an interconnected network.
What is a system?
This is your favorite Christmas song.
What is whatever I said?
These are three flows in the hydrological cycle.
What are transpiration, sublimation, evaporation, condensation, precipitation, surface runoff, groundwater flow, advection, melting, freezing, infiltration?
This soft drink company did much to promote Santa's jolly, happy image.
Who is Coca Cola?
This is the branch of biology that deals with the relationships of organisms and their physical surroundings.
What is ecology?
This is a representation of a proposed structure used to predict an outcome.
What is a model?
These are the reindeer listed in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph
This is a human activity that can alter flows and stores of water in the environment.
What is agriculture, deforestation, urbanization?
According to legend, what popular Christmas tradition started by accident.
What is hanging stockings with care?
This is the type of tree that a Christmas tree is.
What is a conifer?
This a self-regulating system where the output inhibits change in the system.
What is negative feedback?
This Christmas song sings about "scary ghost stories".
What is "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year"?
This term refers to excessive nutrients in a lake or body of water.
What is eutrophication?
This famous Christmas movie contains an abominable snow man and misfit toys?
What is Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer?
This is the progression of changes in an ecosystem leading to a climax community.
What is succession?
This is a system where the output reinforces the initial change leading to amplification of the change.
What is positive feedback?
This song was actually written about Christ's resurrection and coming again, not His birth.
What is "Joy to the World"?
This is the limited availability of water to human societies.
What is water scarcity?
This Christmas tradition sends nearly 15,000 people to the ER each year.
What is decorating?
This is the tendency toward relatively stable equilibrium.
What is homeostasis?
This is the critical moment when a small change causes a large, irreversible shift.
What is a tipping point?
This Christmas song is over 150 years old and was written originally as a Thanksgiving song.
What is Jingle Bells?
This term describes the unsustainable harvesting of natural resources such as fish.
What is overexploitation?
This country is known for popularizing the Christmas tree.
What is Germany & Prince Albert?
This is the type of system in which both energy and matter can enter and exit.
What is an open system?