B19 Organisms in their Environment
Organism that only eats meat
Carnivore
The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
Habitat
What percentage of the atmosphere is other gases?
1%
What is the only planet in the solar system that is named after a female figure?
Venus
Where was the fortune cookie invented?
United States
What is an omnivore
animal that eats plants and meat
The process of selecting organisms with desired traits to be parents of the next generation
Selective breeding
The trapping of heat from the Sun by atmospheric gases
Greenhouse effect
Where in your body is your patella?
Knee
Which fast food restaurant still boards the slogan “Have it your way”?
Burger King
Type of pyramid that always has a pyramidal shape
pyramid of biomass
A substance added to soil to enhance the growth of plants and improve yields
Fertiliser
Formed during incomplete combustion of fossil fuels. Lands as a layer of soot on building and plants.
Carbon particulate (soot)
What rapper was born Marshall Bruce Mathers III?
Eminem
How many herbs and spices are in Colonel Harland Sanders’ original KFC recipe?
11
The position of an organism in a food chain/web, pyramid of numbers, biomass or energy.
Trophic level
Farming strategy in which large fields are planted with a single crop, year after year
Monoculture
Greenhouse gas produced in the digestive system of cattle and decomposition of vegetation. It is even produced by rice paddy fields.
Methane
How many zeroes are there in a trillion?
12
Which dessert is named after a famous ballerina?
Pavlova
Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
Ecology
Process caused by leeching of fertilisers into rivers and lakes
Eutrophication
Pollutant produced in car engines. A natural source of this is lightning strikes.
Oxides of nitrogen
Managua is the capital of which country?
Nicaragua
The name for this popular dessert stems from the French word for “froth” or “foam”.
Mousse