Energy Sources
Renewable vs. Nonrenewable
Ecosystems and Food Webs
Pollution and Sustainability
Populations and Urbanization
Cars and Data
100
This energy source is found near tectonic plate boundaries where magma heats underground water.
What is Geothermal?
100
Wind, Solar, Geothermal, Biomass, and Hydroelectric all belong to this category.
What is Renewable Energy?
100
These organisms convert sunlight into energy and form the base of all food webs.
What are Producers?
100
Of all energy sources, this one is considered the least polluting overall.
What is Solar?
100
This term describes the maximum population size that an environment can sustain.
What is Carrying Capacity?
100
This vehicle runs entirely on electricity.
What is the Chevrolet Bolt?
200
Of all fossil fuels, this one releases the most pollutants and CO2 per unit of energy.
What is Coal?
200
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, and Nuclear Fission all belong to this category.
What is Nonrenewable Energy?
200
Coyotes, Bobcats, and Wolves are examples of this type of consumer.
What are Carnivores?
200
This is considered the most sustainable method for obtaining useful materials from waste.
What is Recycling and Reusing Materials?
200
This is the general population growth pattern seen in nature.
What is rapid growth followed by leveling off at carrying capacity?
200
This car gets the lowest MPG at 33.
What is the Corolla?
300
These three energy sources emit little to no greenhouse gases during operation.
What are Solar, Geothermal, and Nuclear?
300
This is the main reason fossil fuels are considered nonrenewable.
What is they take millions of years to form and exist in limited amounts?
300
Cows, Rabbits, and White-tailed Deer are classified as....
What are Herbivores?
300
These are three of the most unsustainable human activities covered in this unit.
What are Pollution, Burning Fossil Fuels, and Mining and Resource Extraction?
300
As urbanization increases on the HDG scale, this happens to the number of Taxa (biodiversity) in nearby streams.
What is it decreases?
300
This car has the lowest emissions.
What is the Nissan Leaf?
400
Over time, the cost of this renewable energy source has gone down significantly, making it more accessible.
What is Solar?
400
Of all renewable resources, this one requires the least land to generate power.
What is Geothermal?
400
This is the correct order of energy flow in a forest food chain.
What is Sun, Producers, Herbivores, Carnivores, Decomposers?
400
These three human activities cause the most direct damage to the environment.
What are Clear-cutting Forests (Deforestation), Using Fossil Fuels for Energy, and Extracting Materials from the Earth?
400
This is how long it takes for the population to double from 400 to 800 per mL.
What is 2 to 3?
400
This type of hybrid vehicle requires the electricity part to be plugged in. (Acronym)
What is PHEV?
500
California relies on this fossil fuel more than any other energy source.
What is Natural Gas?
500
Of all the renewable energy sources, this one is most dependent on geography and local weather patterns to be effective.
What is Wind?
500
In the forest food web, Blackberry and Leafy Weeds fill this ecological role.
What are Producers?
500
Ranked from most to least polluting, this is the correct order of the three fossil fuels based on overall pollutant output. (Oil, Natural Gas, and Coal)
What is Coal, then Oil, then Natural Gas?
500
This is how many hours yeast took to reach its carrying capacity.
What is 15?
500
This is the gasoline only range for this car.
What is 555?