What is when the environment is contaminated, or dirtied, by waste, chemicals, and other harmful substances
100
Another name for a living
What is biotic
200
A consumer that eats only other animals/meat
What is a carnivore
200
Three terrestrial plants you put in your ecosystem
What is alfalfa, mustard, and rye
200
A change in your aquarium and why
Answers may vary
200
What are the three pollutants we studied?
What is acid rain, fertilizer, and salt
200
Another name for non-living
What is abiotic
300
A consumer that eats both plants and animals
What is an omnivore
300
Two aquatic animals you put in your ecosystem
What is snails and mosquito fish (guppies)
300
Describe a change that can be bad for the ecosystem/biome
What is natural disaster, pollution, hunting (answers may vary)
300
Run off of chemicals, smoke from cars and factories causes this pollution. We can walk or ride bikes instead of driving. We could be careful of how many chemicals we use and recycle
What is acid rain
300
Animals, plants, and other living things take in oxygen during this process called
What is respiration
400
A consumer that eats the remains of dead plants and animals
What is a decomposer
400
Name two terrestrial animals in your ecosystem
What is isopods and crickets
400
Name the biotic features of your aquarium and terrarium
What is elodea, duckweed, algae, guppies, snails, mustard, rye, alfalfa, crickets, isopods
400
Created by farmers putting too much fertilizer on their plants causing too many nutrients. This can be prevented by only putting exactly how much fertilizer we need for plants.
What is agricultural runoff
400
Green plants and algae use the sun's energy to take in carbon dioxide to make their own food through a process called
What is photosynthesis
500
The energy of producers is passed along to consumers in what is called
What is a food chain
500
Name one producer and one consumer in your ecosystem
What is alfalfa, elodea, duckweed, mustard, rye, and algae (producers. Consumers: crickets, isopods, guppies, and snails
500
Name the abiotic features of your aquarium and terrarium
What is rocks, water, and soil
500
This pollutant is placed on roads to melt ice but in the spring enters the soil and runs off into our water system. We can prevent it by using sand or only using the exact amount of salt needed to melt the ice
What is imitating road salt
500
Animals that eat other organisms like plants and other animals