Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Water, Water Everywhere
A Change Would Do You Good
You Are What You Eat
If at First You Don't Succeed
100
Substances in the atmosphere combine with rocks on the earth and changes the chemicals of the rock into a new substance.
What is Chemical Weathering?
100
A layer of permeable rock that water flows through.
What is an aquifer?
100
Scientist who came up with the idea of natural selection.
Who was Charles Darwin?
100
This link in the food chain make their own food and use energy such as the sun’s to turn simple compounds into food.
What are producers?
100
The orderly replacement of plant and animal species through time in a given location
What is succession?
200
The moving of weathered material on the earth’s surface.
What is erosion?
200
A area where water drains into a waterway such as a stream, river, lake, aquifer, or sea.
What is a watershed?
200
The variety of plants and animals and other living things in a particular area or region.
What is biodiversity?
200
Break down dead organisms into simpler substances and in doing so, return important materials to water and soil
What are decomposers?
200
The process of succession that begins in a place without any soil.
What is primary succession?
300
The dropping off of weathered material that has been carried by erosion.
What is deposition?
300
When the ground sinks or settles when groundwater is pumped out. Layers of rock can sink when minerals are mined or oil and gas are removed from layers of rock. This is called what?
What is subsidence?
300
Any change that increases an organism’s chance of survival.
What are adaptations?
300
Many overlapping food chains
What is a food web?
300
A community that has reached a stable stage of ecological succession.
What is a climax community?
400
The Earth’s surface is always changing. Some changes are due to slow processes, such as erosion and weathering, and some changes are due to rapid processes. Which of the following does NOT cause rapid changes in the Earth’s surface? A. Wind B. Landslide C. Earthquake D. Volcanic eruption
What is wind?
400
Spaces in rocks that allow water to flow through?
What are pores?
400
A habitat supplying the factors necessary for the existence of an organism or species
What is a niche?
400
Eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
400
Begins in a place that already has soil and was once the home of living organisms.
What is secondary succession?
500
The following are causes of what natural force? 1. Temperature change 2. Frost action 3. Biological
What are causes of mechanical weathering?
500
Rock layer that is completely filled with groundwater.
What is the zone of saturation?
500
In Darwin's Finches, the birds’ beaks show how the birds A. Compete for the same food in their community B. Require different amounts of food for survival C. Store food for winter months D. Are adapted to get food from different sources
What is D- are adapted to get food from different sources?
500
The beginning of any food chain or food web.
What is the sun?
500
Mosses and lichens
What are pioneer species?
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