Below the ground
What is the smallest mineral particle?
Clay
1. a river
2. a pond
3. an aquifer
4. a lake
3. an aquifer
Wood harvested from trees that are chipped, dried, and burned to produce steam create what type of power?
Biomass power
Name three (3) petroleum products
Gasoline, Diesel, Heating Oil
Your pet gorilla likes to eat berries and gophers. What is your gorilla an example of?
Omnivore
What is the largest mineral particle?
Sand
What does water that is found in springs, streams, rivers, reservoirs, ponds, lakes, and oceans describe?
Surface water
What do you call the area where precipitation is absorbed into the soil to form groundwater?
A watershed
The science of ________ may be used to develop important environmental applications by altering the genetic makeup of living organisms.
Biotechnology
When an animal is in, on, or with another and sharing its food but without either helping it or harming it, what is that relationship called?
Commensalism
What is rock formed by solidification of sediment?
Sedimentary Rock
What is the sequence of living organisms that eat and are eaten by other organisms living in the community known as?
In birds, what do you call the organ that does the job most closely resembling that or teeth?
Gizzard
Nitrous Oxide
A relationship between two organisms, either plants or animals, in which one feeds on the other without killing it is called what?
Parasitism
Which soil horizon is most affected by erosion?
A horizon
What are the tiny particles that become suspended in water as it flows over exposed soil surfaces known as?
Silt
What do you call agricultural practices that will not deplete or damage the land resources on which this and future generations depend on for food and fiber?
Sustainable agriculture
What is an animal that only has access to foods high in fiber but low in nutrient concentration such as grass, twigs, and leaves?
Name the 6 soil horizons in order from shallowest to deepest
O A E B C R
What is the term used to describe the ability of a substance to dissolve in water known as?
Solubility
Male and female gametes joining together is a single cell is called ________, and the result is the formation of a _______.
Fertilization, Zygote
Solar energy and the force of gravity drive what cycle?
Water cycle
What is the greatest single cause of extinction?
Destruction or modification of habitat