Compost
Decomposers
Nature Foodies
Water Cycle
Random
100
True or false: Composting is a way of recycling organic waste to create rich soil, therefore creating a cyclical life cycle for our waste instead of a linear one.
True
100
True or false: Detritivores are a group of invertebrate decomposers like fungi, millipedes, earth worms, and termites.
True
100
A food chain is a transfer of _______ within an ecosystem.
Energy
100
Water falls down. Rain, snow, sleet
What is precipitation
100
The great horned owl that lives at the raptor center
Guffey!
200
What are some main reasons composting is good for both humans and the environment?
It lowers the amount of organic scraps/trash that enters the landfill, lowers the amount of methane being released into thhe atmosphere, and it helps to create rich nutrients for better and healthier fruits and veggies.
200
Earth worms make good decomposers by eating ______. In turn their waste makes good ______.
Earth worms eat dead plants and animals. They leave behind nutrients for good soil.
200
True or false: The loss of just one species is enough to cause a negative rippling effects throughout the rest of the food web causing it to become unbalanced.
True. Just like real spiderwebs, food webs are very delicate.
200
Water gathers all around. Lake and rivers.
What is accumulation
200
Ranger Lokey's favorite sport
Archery or roller skating :)
300
True or false: You can compost anything whether it's organic material like food scraps or not, like plastic water bottles.
False! NEVER compost:
- Plastic or plastic-coated products (e.g., plates, cups, etc.)
- Bioplastics.
- Styrofoam.
- Oil — except in small amounts (for example, greasy pizza boxes are usually ok if you scrape off food bits)
- Meat, bones.
- Dairy.
- Cooked foods.
300
Microscopic decomposers
protozoa and bacteria
300
Plants PRODUCE their own nutrients with energy from the sun, so therefore they are known as _____ in a standard food chain.
Producers
300
Plants sweat the water out. They use their stomata to vent excess water
Transpiration
300
This animal flies and is nocturnal, though it's not a bird nor does it have feathers.
A bat!
400
Regenerative Agriculture is farming and grazing practices that reverse _________ by rebuilding soil organic matter and restoring degraded soil biodiversity.
Climate change
400
Fungi are really cool living organisms! Though they aren't technically considered animals or even plants because fungi don't have _____. The pigment that plants use to produce their own food with the energy from the sun.
Chlorophyll
400
Animals that eat or consume other living things. This includes herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores. These animals are known as ____ in the food chain.
Consumers
400
Water Rises from the ground.
What is evaporation
400
Easily combustible natural material like small dry fallen sticks, twigs, and branches. This helps to get a campfire started and going.
What is kindling?
500
Composting takes the _______ that's in food waste and puts it back into the soil instead of being released into the atmosphere like it would if it were to decompose in a landfill.
Carbon
500
Decomposers help all living things in a number of ways. By creating nutrients however, what type of living organism do decomposers help DIRECTLY?
Plants
500
The interaction of living and nonliving things in a habitat.
What is an Ecosystem?
500
Water turns into a cloud
Condensation
500
What is the name of the river we play in all the time? It starts in Leadville Co, through Pueblo, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas before arriving to Mississippi.
The Arkansas River