Climate Change
The natural process of trapping heat within the atmosphere.
What is The Greenhouse Effect?
The introduction of contaminants into the natural environment that cause negative changes.
What is pollution?
The variety of living species on Earth, including plants, animals, bacteria, and fungi. It encompases the variety of life forms at all levels of biological systems, from molecular to ecosystem levels.
What is biodiversity?
The scientist who developed the theory of evolution.
Who is Charles Darwin?
An ecosystem with an extremely low level of precipitation.
What is a desert?
The types of gasses which increase the trapping of heat in the atmosphere.
What are greenhouse gasses?
The destruction of where plants, animals, and other living organisms live.
What is habitat loss?
A structural and functional unit of ecology where the living organisms interact with each other and the surrounding environment.
What is an ecosystem?
The process by which nature selects the traits and characteristics of living organisms which then passes down to future generations.
What is natural selection?
An ecosystem with high levels of precipitation, high temperatures, abundant vegetation like trees, and close to the equator.
What is a tropical rainforest?
The category of carbonic materials that are burned and then release CO2 into the atmosphere.
What are fossil fuels?
An issue with large global effects caused by warming from the greenhouse effect.
What is climate change?
The tool or diagram used to structure the energy levels and energy transfer within an ecosystem.
What is a trophic-level pyramid?
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring is known as this.
What is a species?
An ecosystem within a small stagnant body of water, usually found within other, larger ecosystems.
What is a pond?
A resource which can only be used once and does not regenerate.
What is a non-renewable resource?
The unsustainable harvesting of natural living resources.
What is overexploitation?
The lowest trophic level in an ecosystem. They create the energy used by the rest of the ecosystem.
What is the primary producers? (Autotrophs)
These are preserved remains or traces of organisms from the past that provide evidence for evolution.
What are fossils?
An ecosystem in between a forest and a grassland, famously know for its abundance in very large mammal species.
What is a savanna?
Almost all of the energy on planet Earth originated from this.
What is the sun?
Organisms that are not native to a certain area whose introduction can negatively impact environmental health and ecosystem.
What are invasive species?
A high level of biodiversity is an indicator of this.
What is a healthy and stable ecosystem?
A trait or characteristic of an organism that has evolved over-time to be beneficial to it’s survival or reproduction in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
An ecosystem that has vegetation but little to no trees. It is typically very fertile land that is good for agriculture; Argentina has a lot of this ecosystem.
What is a grassland or pampas?