Energy Matters.....
Mostly
Miscellaneous
...but Not Random!
Models and Processes and More, Oh My!
Lions & Deer & Shrubs (Oh My!)
NOT Charlotte's Web ;)
100

Food and Fuel are all about this:  Plants trap and store ____________; Nothing makes it!

What is Energy?

100

The smallest Living unit of Structure and Function is the ......

What is the Cell?

100

A way over-simplified model of one thing being eaten by one thing, and so on.....

What is a Food Chain?

100

Absence (lack of) hawks in a food web would affect... (who?):

That would be Everything, because everything is Interconnected!

100

Every single little teeny itty bit  of energy in (almost) all food webs comes from the.....

What is the Sun?  

200

Neither Energy nor Matter is ___________ or _______________.

What is Created or Destroyed!

200

A Substitute, like an Ice Core, or Tree Rings, which can teach us about past climates:_______________

What is a Climate Proxy?

200

The Big Process that Uses CO2and makes O2 (thank goodness!):

What is Photosynthesis? :)

200

_____________ = all the living (Biotic) plus the non-living 'stuff' together in the same area. 

What is an Ecosystem?

200

The main idea of a Food Web is that Every Single Living Thing is essentially...

What is Interconnected?

300

Energy transfers, or ________________, from one organisms to another by Feeding.  (In other words, Matter Cycles, and Energy _________________.)

What is, Energy Flows! (Whereas Matter Cycles)

300

Scientists ( rarely,    always,   frequently,   sometimes) 

disagree... and that's okay!

What is frequently! :)

300

The model that shows interconnected chains, relying on one another:

What is a Food Web?

300

A group of critters, same species, same area, for example the squirrels around Shiverick's Pond...

What is a Population?

300

Latin 101:  The bottom level of a food web is made up of Self-feeders, or (blank-blanks in Latin).

What is Auto-Trophs?

400

Since all our Matter is used and re-used, we use the word ________________ to describe its changing of forms.  (Remember, Energy Flows...what does Matter do?)

What is Matter Cycles?  (Remember, Energy Flows :)

400

Everything is made of  _____________ which are always ___________________.

What are Particles, which are always Moving!

400

A shapely model, showing Energy Available and Energy Loss (as heat) at each level: 

What is an Energy Pyramid?

400

All of the living (biotic) Populations around Shiverick's Pond, or in any area, are considered a .....

What is a Community?

400

Latin 101:  The level above Producers in a Food Web are the Plant-Eaters, or (blank-blank in Latin).

What are the Herbi-Vores?

500

We know of the CO2 / O2 Cycle:  What are 2 others?:  ____________ & ______________

What are Water and Nitrogen Cycles?

500

All human blood is this color:

What is Red.  Period.  There is no other answer. :)

500

The Big 3 Processes that put CO2 into the atmosphere, but just at different speeds:

What are:  Combustion (fastest), Cellular Respiration (slower), Decomposition (slowest).

500

If Primary Consumers increase, what happens to the Secondary Consumers (at first, anyway)?

What is, they would Increase in number!

500

Latin 101:  Secondary Consumers are meat-eaters (blank-blanks = Meat Eater in Latin).

What are Carni-vores?