What microscopic plants can turn into fossil fuels?
What are plankton?
100
Occurs when a substance is added to the environment at such a fast rate that is cannot be broken down, stored, or recycled in the air, land or water in a non-damaging form.
What is pollution?
100
The gradual growth of organisms in an area that was previously bare (rock).
What is primary succession?
200
The term used to describe non living parts of an ecosystem such as soil, air and water.
What is abiotic?
200
Golden eagles eat smaller birds. What are the two terms we use to describe the relationship between the golden eagle and birds?
Golden eagle = Predator
Birds = Prey
200
List two ways that carbon enters the atmosphere.
-burning of fossil fuels
-decomposition
-burning of forests
-respiration
200
Substances that cause pollution.
What are pollutants?
200
The gradual growth of organisms in an area that previously had a number of organisms in it (forest).
What is secondary succession?
300
A term used to describe what an animal eats, how an animal interacts with other organisms and its environment and where the animal lives.
What is niche?
300
Movement of energy, starting from the Sun, and passing down from one organism to another. e________ f______
What is energy flow?
300
The water cycle involves 4 main processes. What two processes move water up from the Earth to the atmosphere?
What is evaporation and transpiration?
300
Pollutants containing sulfur and nitrogen are found in high levels in the air.
What is acid rain?
300
Controlling insects by using their natural enemies.
What is biological control?
400
Plants and algae fill the niche known as ______________.
What are producers?
400
This type of pyramid shows the number of organisms in each level.
What is a pyramid of numbers?
400
What two processes of the water cycle return water back to the Earth?
What is condensation and precipitation?
400
What is the pH of acid rain?
What is 5.6?
400
Species accidentally introduced into an environment are known as... (two terms)
What are introduced species or exotic species?
500
Another name for a herbivore?
What is a primary consumer?
500
Organisms that feed on dead or decaying plant or animal matter? Provide an example.
What are scavengers? Seagulls, raccoons, magpie, wolverine
500
Water that runs off the ground into lakes, rivers or streams.
What is run off?
500
The process where pollutants move from level to level in food webs. They are stored in organisms the same way that food energy is stored.
What is bioaccumulation?
500
Write down an example of biological control (discussed in class yesterday).
What is the black dot spurge beetle (used to eat the weed leafy spurge)?