Ecosystem
Water, rocks, and sun are examples of
What are non-living factors?
Virginia's 5 mineral resources
What are limestone, granite, sand, gravel, and coal?
This moves across and under land.
What is water?
A cat hissing or a dog whimpering
What is a behavior adaptation?
The part of soil that is made up of decayed plant or animal matter. It provides nutrients for the plants in an ecosystem.
What is humus?
A goldfish
What is an organism?
The mineral found mostly in the coastal plain
What is sand?
McLean's watershed
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
Organisms that can make their own food
Double Jeopardy: Fungi is an example
What are producers?
What are decomposers?
The process of frogs starting as eggs and turning into adult frogs is called
What is the life cycle?
A group of the same organism
What is a population?
The mineral found mostly in the Appalachian Plateau
What is coal?
What rain becomes and eventually flows as
What is runoff?
A frog using its legs to swim away from predators
What is a behavioral adaptation?
The scientific term for surface water and the materials it carries downstream into a larger body of water.
What is runoff?
All of the animals in a lake
What is a community?
The mineral resource found mostly in the region we live in.
What is gravel?
The steps in our watershed address
What are
Local Creeks
Potomac River
Chesapeake Bay
Atlantic Ocean
The role an organism plays in its environment
What is a niche?
The third stage of the butterfly's life cycle
Double Jeopardy: The third stage of the frog's life cycle.
What is chrysalis?
What is froglet?
All the populations in a specific area
What is a community?
The mineral that is added to the soil to make plant crops healthy
What is limestone?
The stream flow and water quality of a river are affected by the things happening in the land area "above" the river-outflow point including this:
What are human activities?
The three types of consumers
What are herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores?
An ecological relationship between two or more species that benefits both species
Double Jeopardy: Give an example of this relationship in nature
What is symbiotic relationship?