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Vocabulary
100
A model that shows how energy stored in food passes from organism to organism.
What is a food chain?
100
Non-living parts of the ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
100
When carbon circulates around and around an ecosystem.
What is the carbon cycle?
100
This contains the most water out of a human, tomato, apple and carrot.
What is a tomato?
100
The continuous movement of water through an ecosystem.
What is the water cycle?
200
The three groups that consumers can be divided into three groups.
What is herbivores, carnivores and omnivores?
200
An example would be a composter.
What is an example of a decomposer?
200
A scale that measures the acidity of liquids and ranges from 0 to 14.
What is a pH scale?
200
The pesticide that was commonly used across Canada.
What is DDT?
200
Water that fun off the ground into lakes, rivers or streams.
What is run-off?
300
All living things - including humans, bacteria, insects, and plants - are apart of this ecosystem.
What is biotic?
300
They make life possible for all other organisms on Earth.
What is a producer?
300
Three words that can be used when explaining the water cycle.
What is condensation, evaporation, transpiration, condensation, precipitation, ground water OR run-off?
300
True or False - Animals can become deformed due to pollution in the ecosystem.
What is true?
300
Roles organisms play in their community.
What is a niche?
400
A network of interconnected food chains.
What is a food web?
400
_____________ are consumers that kill and eat other animals called _______________.
What is predators and prey?
400
Occurs when pollutants enter into the food web and accumulate in the higher level consumers.
What is bioaccumulation?
400
Mrs. Wozniak drinks this everyday and it has a pH close to 5.
What is coffee?
400
It starts from the sun and passes from one organism to the next.
What is energy flow/energy cycle?
500
I could disappear completing from the ocen floor by 2030 because bacteria are removing the iron from its hull at a rate of 1/10 of a tonne a day.
What is the Titanic?
500
The magpie and the wolverine are common ________ in Alberta?
What is scavengers?
500
The process in which water that is taken in through a plant's roots evaporates from the plant's leaves, stem and flowers.
What is transpiration?
500
The ultimate recycler because it uses gases, water and nutrients over and over again.
What is the environment?
500
The total mass of all organisms in an ecosystem?
What is biomass?
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