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Seasons
Carbon/Nitrogen cycles
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Misc.
100
The season when most organisms are born.
What is spring?
100
Producers use this gas to do photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
An environmental stress happens because there is too little or not enough of a ______________.
What is a resource?
100
The part of the ecosystem that is nonliving.
What is the environment? (This includes the soil, air, temperature, water)
100
When water vapor changes back into a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
When an ecosystem has two seasons, those seasons are called ______________________.
What is wet and dry seasons?
200
The process that turns oxygen and sugar into usable cell energy is ___________________.
What is animal respiration?
200
Two stresses that we talked about that can be beneficial as well as stressful to an environment.
What are fires and floods?
200
Many forest fires are started this way.
What is man's carelessness?
200
When water evaporates from the leaves of plants.
What is transpiration?
300
Winds that change direction with the seasons are called this.
What are monsoons?
300
The organisms responsible for breaking down the bodies of dead things which results in carbon being released into the air as carbon dioxide gas.
What are decomposers?
300
This stress usually has no definite start or end.
What is drought?
300
The biggest stress on ecosystems that can be brought about by people.
What is loss of habitat?
300
Water stored under the earth.
What is ground water?
400
The season when animals usually hibernate and it is very cold.
What is winter?
400
A gas found in our atmosphere that has to be changed in order for organisms on earth to use it.
What is nitrogen?
400
A stress that can distribute new soil and seeds to areas.
What is flooding?
400
Two ways that people deal with forest fires.
What is putting it out if lives or property are in danger and letting it burn if it will be good for the forest.
400
A species that is introduced to an ecosystem that can do great damage.
What is an invasive species?
500
A regular pattern of change is called a _____________.
What is cycle?
500
Two ways that nitrogen is "fixed" into usable compounds.
What is lightning and nitrogen changing bacteria?
500
When populations could become endangered they are ________________.
What is threatened?
500
A Christian's responsibility to the environment.
What is to use resources wisely, and to take care of the environment?
500
Gradual changes to ecosystem because of stresses.
What is succession?