GMOs
GMO stands for
What is Genetically Modified Organism?
This is the original source of energy for all ecosystems.
What is the Sun?
The movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Earth.
What is the water cycle?
This organism converts nitrogen gas into a useable form for plants and animals.
What is bacteria?
Dr. Barke's favorite flavor of ice cream.
What is mint chocolate chip or Jeni's ooey gooey cake?
An organism that contains foreign DNA.
What is a GMO?
In an ecosystem, the organisms that can make their own food from energy in their surroundings.
What are producers?
Snow, sleet, and hail are all examples of this phase of the water cycle.
What is precipitation?
This is how animals get the nitrogen they need to survive.
What is by eating it?
What is an energy pyramid?
Genes are found in this cellular organelle.
What is the Nucleus?
In an ecosystem these are the organisms that acquire energy by eating other organisms.
What are consumers?
This part of the water cycle forms clouds.
What is condensation?
The process of combining nitrogen gas with other elements to make nitrogen into usable compounds
What is denitrification?
The group of organisms that makes up the base of the energy pyramid.
What are producers?
True or False, insecticide resistance is one of the main reasons we produce GMO crops.
What is true?
These organisms break down decaying organisms
What are decomposers?
The main source of energy force driving the water cycle.
What is the Sun?
The major sink for phosphorus.
What is sedimentary rock?
The percentage of energy stored in an organism that can be passed on to the next trophic level.
What is 10%?
What is genetic engineering?
These organisms eat both producers and consumers.
What are omnivores?
This process in the water cycle returns water to other locations on Earth.
What is runoff?
Two ways in which living organisms return carbon to the atmosphere.
What is decomposition and respiration?
The energy a primary consumer would gain if the producer level contained 10,000 kcal of energy.
What is 1,000 kcal?