Photosynthesis
Gas that is given off in photosynthesis as byproduct which is necessary to the respiration of animals and humans.
What is oxygen?
Term used to describe a species that has dwindled in number and is in danger of disappearing completely.
What is endangered?
Living organisms that break down dead plants and animals.
What are decomposers?
The Kingdom including trees, grasses and other vascular and non-vascular organisms.
What is the Plant Kingdom?
The cycle that involves Evaporation, Condensation, Precipitation, Runoff.
What is the water cycle.
In photosynthesis, a plant uses this organelle to convert sunlight to energy.
What is the chloroplast?
Chemical used in the 1950's to control insect pests that had a negative impact on the Bald Eagle population in the U.S.
What is DDT?
The term used for living things that make their own food through the process of photosynthesis.
What are producers?
The Kingdom including mushrooms, mold and several other decomposers.
What is the Fungi Kingdom?
The critical element needed for life that is yielded when bacteria decomposes dead material in the soil.
What is nitrogen?
Microscopic tubes in a plant that carry glucose from the leaves downward to the rest of the plant.
What are the phloem?
The problem caused by a toxic pesticide that resulted in the Bald Eagle becoming endangered.
What is soft eggshells?
Term used for living organisms that must eat other plants and animals to get energy to survive.
What are consumers?
The alliteration we used to remember the classifications of living things. (KPCOFGS)
What is Keep Ponds Clean Or Frogs Get Sick?
The process of humans and animals converting oxygen to carbon dioxide by breathing in and out.
What is respiration?
Microscopic tubes in a plant that carry water and nutrients from the roots upward to the rest of the plant.
What are the xylem?
Term used for a species that can no longer be found on Earth.
What is extinct?
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits but the other is not affected.
What is communalism?
The most specific classification of living organisms.
What is species?
The process in which plants take in carbon dioxide and release oxygen through microscopic openings in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
Oxygen and carbon dioxide enter and leave the plant through these openings on the plant's leaves. (NOT the guard cells)
What are the stomata?
A change in this is always the cause of a species beginning to disappear or beginning to thrive.
What is the environment?
A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit from that relationship.
What is mutualism?
The classifications of living organisms represented by... KPCOFGS
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family Genus, Species?
The cycle of the exchange of gasses between plants and animals.
What is the Oxegen-Carbon Dioxide Cycle?