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What is the term for all living and nonliving things in an area interacting with each other?
Ecosystem
Which cycle moves water between the land, ocean, and atmosphere?
Water cycle
Which biome is characterized by very low temperatures and snow-covered land?
Tundra
What human activity adds the most carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
Burning fossil fuels
what is the name of the CNN 10 host?
Coy Wire
What type of organism makes its own food through photosynthesis? (bonus)
Producer (or Autotroph)
Which gas do plants take in during photosynthesis?
Carbon dioxide (CO₂)
What is a behavioral adaptation? Give one example.
A behavior that helps an organism survive (example: birds migrating for winter, hibernation, hunting at night)
What is the greenhouse effect?
Warming of Earth caused by gases trapping heat in the atmosphere
What did students in New York City do to improve school lunches?
Cooking contest and making new recipes
In a food chain, what do we call animals that eat only plants? (bonus)
Herbivores (primary consumer)
Name the cycle that moves CO2 through the atmosphere, living things, and fossil fuels.
Carbon cycle
Which biome has trees that lose their leaves in the fall?
Deciduous forest (We live here)
What layer of gases around Earth keeps some of the Sun’s heat from escaping? Bonus: How many layers does it have?
Atmosphere, 5
what happened in California?
Fire
2 Part! When an organism eats another organism only a small portion of energy makes it to the consumer, how much makes it and where does the energy that does not make it go(where is it "spent"). Hint: its two places
10%, heat and used
What is the process called when water moves from plants to the atmosphere?
Transpiration
How does the rain forest limit grown growth?
Canopy
What is causing the rise in sea levels?
Ice caps and glaciers melting
what should people include in their messages to CNN 10
Who, where, what
What is the difference between a food chain and a food web?
A food chain shows one path of energy; a food web shows multiple interconnected paths of energy.
Explain why humans burning fossil fuels affects the carbon cycle.
Burning fossil fuels releases extra carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, increasing greenhouse gases and affecting climate.
How does the tundra biome limit plant growth?
Permafrost
Name one effect of global warming on oceans besides the sea levels increasing
Warming the waters
What is special about the materials created by the Nobel Prize winners for chemistry?
gather water from the air and clean air pollution