Circle of Life
A collection of connected food chains
What is a food web?
A creature that eats other creatures for nutrition
What is a carnivore?
The collection method used to gather organisms in tall grass
What is a sweep net?
The name for growing only one type of foodstuff
What is a monoculture?
The process caused by releasing large amounts of carbon dioxide into the environment
What is global warming?
An organism that makes their own food
What is a producer?
The type of creature that has flat molars for chewing plant matter
What is a herbivore?
The collection method used to gather organisms using breath
What is a pooter?
The effect of birth control on population growth
What is decreases?
The gas that causes acid rain
What is sulphur dioxide?
The top creature in a food chain
What is an apex predator?
The type of creature with monocular vision
What is a prey?
The collection method that uses food as a bait
What is a pitfall trap?
The method of raising animals in close quarters to reduce energy requirements
What is battery farming?
The process where fertilisers get into the local water environment killing off a pond
What is eutrophication?
The name for a creature on the third level of a food chain
What is a secondary consumer?
An adaptation of nocturnal creatures
(4 total 100 each)
What is:
larger eyes
better hearing
advanced smell
echolocation
A method used to estimate populations across large areas with a sample
What is a quadrat?
The name for when there are significantly more deaths than births
What is a population crash?
The process where toxins build up in an ecosystem
What is bioaccumulation?
The reason that coating foods in oil acts as a preservation method
What is removing oxygen?
Daily double
Name as many adaptations for a cacti as possible
The total amount of daisies in an area of 100m2 if 37 are found in a 2.5 m2 area
What is 1480?
The human population right now (closest wins)
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Small soluble pieces of matter created from waste that infiltrate the marine ecosystem
What are microplastics?