Cycles
Name two types of "cycle" that shows how matter is cycled on Earth.
Water cycle/Carbon cycle/Nitrogen Cycle/Phosphorus cycle
Which is bigger, a food chain or a food web?
Food web
What are the living things in an ecosystem?
Plants/animals/bacteria...
Name one human activity that helps to prevent a lot of waste/garbage build up and promotes "re-using" things.
Recycling.
What is the "carrying capacity" of a habitat?
Maximum number of living organisms that can survive in a particular habitat
The terms "evaporation, condensation, precipitation" all refer to which type of cycle?
Water cycle
The living things that use sunlight to grow are called...
Producers/plants/autotrophs
These are examples of abiotic factors.
wind/sand/dirt/rocks...
Name one human activity that poses a threat to biodiversity in ecosystems.
Habitat destruction/pollution
What is an endangered species? (What does it mean to be endangered?)
In danger of going extinct from the planet.
How are fossil fuels created?
Compression of organic matter (especially carbon)
Two different names for living things that must eat to get energy are...
Consumer/heterotroph/herbivore/omnivore/carnivore
An example of a particular habitat is...
Desert/Artctic/Rainforest/Grassland...
What things contribute to air, or water, or land pollution?
Dumping chemicals/ Carbon dioxide emissions cars and factories/ Other chemical emissions
Invasive species are considered ________________ to a particular habitat they enter.
Non-native.
The nitrogen cycle is responsible for moving nitrogen from A to B. What is A, what is B?
Atmosphere to soil/ground.
In food chains and webs, which direction do the arrows point between organisms?
Arrows point INTO a organism that is consuming another.
The difference between omnivores and carnivores is ___________________.
Carnivores eat meaty things.
Omnivores eat meat and planty things.
What is a natural "absorber" of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Trees/Forests/Plants
How do invasive species affect the new environment they find themselves in?
They kill the other species.
They eat all the food.
They destroy the habitat.
Which element (from one of the cycles) is mostly associated with global warming?
Carbon
The biggest difference between food chains and webs is...
Webs show the interconnectedness of one organism to multiple other organisms (ie lots of chains and how they connect)
Explain "biodiversity".
It is the total variety of life/living things in a habitat or ecosystem.
Marine life is especially sensitive to changing ___________, caused by global warming.
Water temperatures
Describe two different ways "invasive species" can enter a new habitat.
From a boat or plane from one place to another.
Brought in as pets.
Brought in on purpose to remove another species.