Big Idea Concepts
The Environment
Processes
Food Webs
Extra
100
The movement of water between the oceans, atmosphere, land, and living things
Water Cycle
100
A large area characterized by its climate and the plants and animals that live in the area
Biome
100
Non-living factors such as water depth, light, and temperature that affect marine ecosystems
Abiotic
100
The place where an organisms lives
Habitat
100
The process of recovering valuable or useful materials from waste or scrap
Recycling
200
The exchange of carbon between the environment and living things
Carbon Cycle
200
This consists of all the organisms in a particular region, along with nonliving components.
Ecosystem
200
The process by which plants make their own food using the energy from light
Photosynthesis
200
Plants are typically this in a food web/chain.
Producer or Autotroph.
200
The wise use and preservation of natural resources
Conservation
300
The percent of the Earth's Atmosphere that is Nitrogen
78%
300
The variety of species that are present in an area
Biodiversity
300
The Process by which carbon from glucose is converted to carbon dioxide gas.
Cellular Respiration
300
an unwanted change in the environment caused by substances such as wastes, or forms of energy, such as radiation. Typically bad for living things.
Pollution
300
The THREE R's of conservation
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
400
A small community starts to grow in an area where other organisms have not previously lived. Rock is gradually transformed into soil.
Primary Succession
400
Name 3 types of trees.
Many answers possible. Judge decides.
400
What is the characteristic of water that allows it to climb from the roots of a plant to the leaves?
Capillary Action
400
What is an Autotroph?
A living creature that produces their own food.
400
The first plant that usually grows during secondary succession
Annual plants
500
An existing community is destroyed and begins to grow back
Secondary Succession
500
These tiny organisms that float near the surface of the water form the basis of the ocean's food chains
Plankton
500
We've talked about this in class in September. Finish this sentence. "Water is _______"
Sticky
500
In this food web, which species are the Primary consumers?
Penguin and Krill
500
A close, long-term association between 2 or more species
Symbiosis (also will accept Mutualism, Commensalism, or Parasitism)