The study of the relationship between living organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
100
Materials and products that are found in nature.
What are natural resources?
100
The resources of nature are being renewed at least as quickly as they are used, and that all wastes are able to be completely absorbed.
What is sustainability?
100
An inherited characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment.
What is adaptation?
100
The four needs of living things.
What is food, water, a suitable habitat and exchanging of gases?
200
A place to live.
What is habitat?
200
Things that make our lives more enjoyable,
What are wants?
200
A measurement that is just under the size of of a city block.
What is a hectare?
200
Occurs when two species live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
What is symbiosis?
200
What we all depend on.
What is nature?
300
A symbiotic relationship in which one partner benefits and the other partner appears neither to lose nor to gain from the relationship.
What is commensalism?
300
These events clear areas of small trees and leaves, needles, and other forest debris that gather on the ground.
What is a forest fire?
300
A calculation of the total area of land and water needed to supply all of the material and energy that you use, as well as absorb all of the waste that you produce.
What is your ecological footprint?
300
An organism that lives on or in another host and feeds on it.
What is a parasite?
300
Peregrine falcons were close to extinction in eastern Canada in the mid-1900s following the common use of this pesticide.
What is DDT?
400
The interaction between living and non-living things in a particular environment.
What is an ecosystem?
400
Areas where soil is wet for all or most of the year.
What is a wetland?
400
This has caused waste-management problems, but it can also help to solve them.
What is technology?
400
The organism that a parasite lives and feeds on.
What is a host?
400
Common parasites that live inside other animals' intestines.
What is a tapeworm?
500
The four types of interactions in the ecosystem.
What is symbiosis, mutualism, parasitism and commensalism?
500
The Nootka used this bark to weave to make clothing.
What is cedar?
500
Four ways to reduce your ecological footprint.
What is reduce, reuse, recycle and refuse.
500
A relationship between two different organisms, in which each partner benefits from the relationship.