The nonliving, physical features of the environment
What are Abiotic Factors?
What are sunlight, water, air, crops?
Renewable resources: any resources that are recycled or replaced by nature
What is: Cold air sinks and pushes warm air up?
Environments that have more water (like rainforests) usually support a ______ diversity and _____ number of organisms.
Organisms use the chemicals found near hydrothermal vents to produce energy.
What is chemosynthesis?
What is False? Fossil fuels are NONrenewable resources.
Most organisms are 50-______% water!
Consuming amino acids would be a part of which cycle that we learned in class.
Decaying matter found in soil is called this.
1. An energy pyramid shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level in an ecosystem. Only about __________ of the energy available is transferred to the next higher level.
What are: Water power, Wind power, Nuclear power, Geothermal energy, Solar energy?
This is which one of the 3 Rs: a form of reuse that requires changing or reprocessing and item or natural resource.
Matter can be _____________ again and again.
This location would likely have the warmer temperature: (select one) sea level, timberline, mountain peak, deep ocean trench.
Temperature at the equator is _________. Temperature at the polar caps are _________.
What is: Temperature at the equator is warmer. Temperature at the polar caps are colder?
Either of these are good answers:
What are: The Fossil Fuels (OIL, NATURAL GAS, COAL)?
Fossil Fuel combustible material found deep in Earth’s crust made from ___________________.
What are decayed organisms?
FOOD WEB: Put these in the correct order- Slug, bird, lettuce, cat
What is "lettuce, slug, bird, cat"?
An areas average weather conditions over time.
Please give at least 3 examples of a nonliving things.
What are: light, water, air, soil, minerals?
What is: Air becomes warmer when the sunlight heats the molecules and higher up in the atmosphere there are less molecules to heat (thinner air)?
This is the 2nd half of this Dr. Seuss quote. "Don't cry because it's over. ..."
What is "Smile because it happened."?