Terrestrial Ecosystems
Freshwater & Marine
Ecological Balance & Imbalance
Human Impact & Sustainability
Miscellaneous
100
The characteristics of terrestrial ecosystems vary according to...
What is altitude?
100
Percentage of water in marine ecosystems on the Earth.
What is 70%?
100
Describe the effect of a disease or plague
Can destroy one or more species which affects food chains and ecosystems
100
The "three Rs", keys to sustainability
What are reduce, reuse, and recycle?
100
Trees that lose their leaves in the autumn
What are deciduous?
200
Define terrestrial ecosystem.
What is a land-based community of organisms and the interactions of biotic and abiotic components of a given area?
200
High level of salinity is a characteristic of which ecosystem.
What is marine?
200
Three examples of natural disasters
What are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, tornadoes, and landslides?
200
Cutting down forests to grow crops for the growing human population, destroys plants and animals
What is deforestation?
200
What are the similarities between marine and freshwater ecosystems?
What are water, living things, non-living things, and light?
300
This is a wooded area of land next to a body of water.
What is a Riperian forest?
300
Otters, water lilies, and willow trees live here.
What is freshwater ecosystems?
300
What does "changes to population" refer to?
Natural change; when the population of one species changes, it can affect the populations of other animals and plants.
300
The four main human threats to ecosystems.
What are overfishing, deforestation, overpopulation, and pollution?
300
The characteristics of the "deepest zone" in marine ecosystems.
What are: no light, cold water, animals feed from the remains from above
400
Name the three characteristics of terrestrial ecosystems.
What are plenty of light, scarcity of water, and varying temperatures?
400
Name 5 different types of marine consumers.
fish, marine mammals, starfish, coral, & zooplankton
400
The three natural causes that disrupt the ecological balance
What are natural disasters, diseases and plagues, and changes to population?
400
Define sustainability:
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
400
The four factors of aquatic ecosystems.
What are salinity, depth, water flow rate, and light level?
500
Name the ecosystem and characteristics
What is Scrubland? Trees can't grow because of the low temperatures; only grasses and shrubs can survive; some small mammals, large vultures, and crows
500
Classify the following as producer, consumer, or decomposer: anemone, tuna, phyoplankton, prawns, fungi
producers = phyoplankton
consumers = anemone, tuna, prawns
decomposers = fungi
500
August 22, 2020 - "Overshoot Day", refers to this...
*hint* this day changes every year
Overshoot Day is the moment each year when humans have used up more natural resources than the Earth can renew in 12 months.
We live on a limited planet!
500
The four serious consequences the Earth will experience due to human activities.
What are extinction of species of plants and animals, exhaustion of natural resources, water and air pollution, and littered land (land covered with rubbish)?
500
Three zones of marine ecosystems and an example of an organism that lives in each.
Coastal Zone: coral,
Middle Zone: whale, fish, dolphin, etc.
Deepest Zone: squid, abyssal fish