Energy and Heat
What are Kinetic and Potential Energy
This type of animal eats both meat and plants
What are Omnivores
Non-living resources
What are Abiotic Resources
This type of energy comes from the sun
What is Solar Energy
This is what is happening outside, in your area, right now.
What is Weather
Energy associated with an object being compressed or stretched.
What is Elastic Potential Energy
In a food chain, the organism that eats the producer is called
What is the Primary Consumer
Where an organism lives
What is a habitat
Burning fossil fuels can cause air, land, and water
What is Pollution
Rain, snow, sleet, or hail
What is Precipitation
Heat Transfer
What is Thermal Energy
When on organism benefits but the other is neither helped or harmed
What is Commensalism
Tertiary Level on a food pyramid or food chain
What is Third Level
This type of energy is sometimes considered both renewable and non renewable
What is Nuclear Energy
Strong bands of wind that push warm and cold air masses
What are Jet Streams
Energy associated with the position or shape of an object
What is Potential Energy
What is an Invasive Species
Organisms that make their own food
What are Producers
Fossil Fuels
What are coal, oil, natural gas, propane, kerosene, and petroleum
The affix -nimbo means
What is Rain or Storms
When one energy becomes another energy
What is Energy Transformation
Illegal hunting
What is Poaching
A group of the same species
What are Populations
This type of energy is produced by moving water
What is Hydroelectric Energy
water that isn't absorbed into the ground
What is Runoff
Heat transfer through liquids
What is Convection
The arrow of a food chain shows
What is the flow of energy
When habitats are broken up or divided into smaller more isolated habitats
What is Habitat Fragmentation
This type of renewable energy requires a lot of space but can be setup pretty much anywhere the land allows
What is Geothermal Energy
This air mass forms over land near the equator
What is Continental Tropical
Energy can not be created or destroyed
What is the Law of Conservation
This important species influences the survival of many other organisms in an environment
What are Keystone Species
The study of where organisms live and how they got there
What is Biogeography
This term is used when referring to the action of preserving or protecting the environment
What is Conservation
This type of cloud looks like wispy feathers in the sky
What are Cirrus Clouds
This is the formula for kinetic energy
What is mass x speed squared
When animals reproduce in zoos or wildlife preserves rather than in the wild.
What is Captive Breeding
In this biome you experience all four seasons and the trees lose their leaves in the winter
What is the Deciduous Forrest
This is the measurement of the impact humans have on the environment in order to meet their needs
What is Ecological Footprint
In scientific terms these are the three parts of the Biosphere
What are Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, and Atmosphere.