Abiotic/Biotic
What is the Sun?
It is the area on Earth where you can find living things.
What is the Biosphere?
It is head lice sucking the blood from a person's scalp.
What is parasitism?
It is the organisms who eat animals.
What is an carnivore?
It is the root cause of the melting of the polar ice caps.
What is burning fossil fuels and adding too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?
It is the abiotic factor blocked from the layers of water in a pond when algae overgrows on the top.
What is Sunlight?
It is the pond filled with freshwater, fish, vegetation and sunlight shining on the water.
What is an ecosystem?
It is the Egret bird who follows around cattle in the fields to easily eat insects which may be an annoyance and harmful to the cattle.
What is mutualism?
It is the organims that eat green plants?
What is an herbivore?
It is the effect which can cause cancer in humans when we bury our wastes and add toxic chemicals to our soil.
What is groundwater contamination?
What is drinking water pollution?
What is polluted water?
It is a biotic factor that can limit the size of a deer population.
What are predators such as wolves?
It is a group of fish, a group of plants, some algae, and some snails in a given area.
What is a community?
It is the barnacle catching a ride on a whale to increase the water obtained for filter feeding.
What is commensalism?
It is an organism which eats both plants and animals.
What is an omniovre?
It is the gas that is not produced when using solar pannels for the production of electricity.
What is carbon dioxide?
It is the 2 main abiotic factors which determine the type of plants that grow in a Biome.
What is temperature and rainfall/precipitation?
It is a large amount of wasps on a wasp's nest.
What is a population?
It is the biome where succulant plants such as cacti live.
What is the desert?
They are fungi and bacteria.
What are decomposers?
It is one of the MOST effective ways to reduce the electricity use in a home.
What is insulating your attic and basement?
What is using solar panels for creating electricity?
What is subscribing to the concept of Conservation of energy and using energy efficient appliances?
It is the 5 abiotic factors a plant requires for survival.
It is the slow gradual change over 100's of years from bare rock/soil to a mature hardwood forest.
What is ecological succession or just succession?
It is the name of the biome we live in here in NY State.
What is the temperate deciduous forest?
It is another name for autotroph which make their own food. (vocab word for all the green plants on the bottom of the pyramid)
What is a producer?
It is the vocab word used to describe fossil fuels and how they are limited in their supply.
What is nonrenewable?