Vocab
Interactions Between Living Things
Energy and Matter
Humans and Ecosystems
Miscellaneous
100

What is the way a species interacts with abiotic and biotic factors to obtain food, find shelter, and fulfill other needs?

What is niche

100

What is the difference between abiotic and biotic factors?

What is abiotic are nonliving and biotic are living

100

What are the different ways organisms can receive their food?

What are producers, consumers, and detritivores

100

What were the organisms that contributed much of our oxygen in our atmosphere?

What are cyanobacteria

100

What is the name of the government agency that enforces environmental laws and creates many of them?

What is the environmental protection agency or EPA
200

What is the largest number of individuals that  an ecosystem can support over time?

What is carrying capacity

200

Give an example of a population using Van Far Elementary School.

What are kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, fourth grade, fifth grade, sixth grade, the teachers

200
Grass grows in a small field where there is plenty of sunlight. A field mouse eats the grass. A small snake eats the mouse. Who receives the most energy from their food?

What is the grass

200

What are the two types of resources available that humans use?

What are renewable and nonrenewable resources
200

What are the 5 Rs?

What are rebuild, rethink, reduce, reuse, and recycle
300

What are organisms that cannot make their own food?

What are consumers

300

Describe the differences between mutualism, commenalism, and parasitism.

What is mutualism is beneficial to all parties involved, commenalism is beneficial to one party and has no impact on the other, and parasitism has a negative effect on one party and a beneficial impact on the other
300

What are the three cycles of matter we discussed in class?

What are the nitrogen cycle, the water cycle, and the carbon dioxide oxygen cycle

300

What was the name of the chemicals that produced a large amount of ozone damage over a time period of about 70 years?

What are CFCs or chlorofluorocarbons

300

What habitat is most threatened by humanity's interference in the environment, in your opinion? Why?

*Accepted answers will be considered by accuracy of information given*

400

What is a model that shows the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain?

What is an energy pyramid

400

Explain population density using examples.

What is population density is how many organisms live in a particular area
400

How do we contribute carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?

What are burning fossil fuels, decomposing, breathing, biomass combustion

400

What are the possible effects of ozone depletion?

What are DNA damage, increased rates of skin cancer, and disruption of photosynthesis

400

Give an example of a predator/prey relationship.

*Answers vary depending on accuracy of the information*

500

What is the exhaustion of one or more resources in an area?

What is resource depletion

500
A small forested area has populations of rabbits, deer, and foxes. Nearby there are several packs of wolves. Every year around the same time, the populations of rabbits, deer, and foxes goes down. What could you attribute to the change in population size?

*Answers accepted depending on accuracy of information*

500

Explain how water changes forms in the water cycle.

What is evaporation, condensation, precipitation, transpiration, etc.

500

What are the three environmental laws we discussed in class?

What are the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Air Act, and the Clean Water Act

500

Give an example of a detritivore.

*Answers vary depending on accuracy of information given*

M
e
n
u