Life & Living Things
This is the term for something that grows, reproduces, responds to its environment, and uses energy.
Organism
This is something people can do that changes the natural balance of an ecosystem, such as building cities or cutting forests.
human impact
This term describes all the members of one species living in a certain area.
Population
This is the practice of protecting Earth's resources and using them wisely.
conservation
This harmful gas is released by cars and factories and is a major cause of air pollution
What is carbon dioxide (or CO₂)?
This is what you call the interaction between animals, plants, air, water, sunlight, and other nonliving things in a system.
Ecosystem
These are non-native species that can harm an ecosystem by crowding out native species or using up resources.
Invasive Species
This is the name for the nonliving parts of an ecosystem like water, temperature, and rocks.
Abiotic Factor
This is an example of a fossil fuel used for energy that forms over millions of years.
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy
This type of pollution hangs in the air over cities and can harm breathing and visibility.
What is smog?
This is the term for the specific job or role an organism plays in its environment, including how it gets food.
Niche
This type of resource can be used again and again, such as wind or solar power.
Renewable Resource
This includes the living parts of an environment, such as plants, animals, and bacteria.
Biotic Factor
This is what you’re doing when you turn used materials into new products.
Recycling
This gas, along with carbon dioxide, traps heat in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is methane (or a greenhouse gas)?
This is what happens when organisms need the same resource like food, water, or space in an ecosystem.
Competition
A Type of pollution that is hard to trace to one identifiable point, can come from many different locations
This happens when two species interact and both benefit, like bees pollinating flowers.
Mutualism
This term describes resources like sunlight, wind, and water that naturally replace themselves.
Renewable
True or False, There is more oxygen than any other gas in the atmosphere, if false, what is the most abundant gas, and what percentage of the atmosphere is consists of that gas?
False, Nitrogen 78%
This word describes a group of different species living and interacting together in the same area.
Community
This is the warming of Earth’s atmosphere caused by gases like carbon dioxide trapping heat.
Greenhouse Effect
This is what happens when one species benefits, and the other species is not harmed
Commensalism
This happens when the demand for resources grows because there are too many people in an area.
overpopulation
This is one reason pollution in one city can harm ecosystems hundreds of miles away.
→ What is wind or water carrying pollutants (or atmospheric travel)?