Properties of Water
Water Cycle
Aquatic Ecosystem
Carbon Cycle
Misc.
100
Water's ability to stick to other substances such as glass or on the grass. Identify the property of water that is being described.
What is adhesion?
100
Another name for water cycle
What is the hydrologic cycle?
100
Aquatic Ecosystem that is located between continents and makes up 98% of water on the planet
What is a Marine Ecosystem?
100
Leaves fall from deciduous trees in autumn. The carbon in these leaves is returned to the atmosphere through which of the following processes?
A. what is condensation?
B. what is decomposition?
C. what is photosynthesis?
D. what is transpiration?
B. what is decomposition?
100
Eiliel wants to know if certain genre music makes him better at practice. He listens to 4 different genres of music and measures how many shots he successfully makes to determine which genre is the best. Identify is the independent variable of his experiment.
What are Music Genres?
200
The property of water that allows insects and other organisms to be able to walk on the top of the water.
What is cohesion (surface tension)?
200
This occurs when leaves from the trees and other vegetation give off water vapor through pores in their leaves.
What is transpiration?
200
True or False: The sun is a limiting factor for organisms in a shallow pond
What is FALSE?
200
If many trees are removed from a forest by logging, what is the most immediate effect on the carbon cycle in that forest?
A. increase in the rates of decomposition
B. increase in the rates of atmospheric carbon dioxide
C. decreased combustion of fossil fuel
D. increase production of organic compounds
B. What is increase the rates of atmospheric carbon dioxide?
200
The group in an experiment that is not manipulated in order to act as a comparison group.
What is a control group?
300
Which of the following best describes a result of the polar nature of water molecules?
A. What are Ionic compounds dissolve easily in water?
B. What is The volume of water decreases by nearly half when it is frozen?
C. What are the Water molecules repel each other?
D. What are the Water molecules repel most other substances?
A. What are Ionic compounds dissolve easily in water?
300
The process that is directly affected if condensation (clouds) are unable to form.
a. what is evaporation?
b. what is transpiration?
c. what is infiltration?
d. what is precipitation?
d. What is Precipitation?
300
Aquatic Ecosystem that is composed of Rivers, Lakes, streams and other bodies of water usually surrounded by land?
What is a Freshwater Ecosystem?
300
Organisms that take in Carbon Dioxide
What are plants?
300
The trophic level that is representative of herbivores.
What are Primary Consumers?
400
Water can climb up the tubes to keep plants hydrated to allow the process of photosynthesis to take place. Identify the property of water that makes this possible.
a. What is cohesion and adhesion (capillary action)?
b. What is Universal Solvent?
c. What is High specific Heat?
d. What is surface tension?
a. What is cohesion and adhesion (capillary action)?
400
This is a series of continuous interactions between water (matter) and the Sun's energy.
What is the Water Cycle?
400
Seal is to Tertiary Consumer as Plankton is to______________
What is a Producer?
400
How Carbon gets cycled back into the atmosphere.
What is through respiration, or burning fossil fuels, auto and factory emissions?
400
Sandline is interested in learning about the EVE gene and wants to look at mitochondria located in human cells. The microscope best suited for this observation is...
What is a Transmission Electron Microscope?
500
Water has a much higher specific heat than most other covalent compounds. What do you predict might happen if water had a low specific heat instead?
A. What is flooding would occur and animals would be forced to migrate.
B. What is harmful organisms living in water would reproduce at a rapid rate.
C. What are Organisms that are sensitive to changes in temperature would die.
D. What is Plants would not have enough water to effectively carry out photosynthesis.
C. What are Organisms that are sensitive to changes in temperature would die.
500
Energy from this is the driving force for most biotic and abiotic cycles on the surface of the Earth.
The water cycle would not occur if which of the following were missing?
A. what is bacteria?
B. what are autotrophs?
C. what is carbon dioxide?
D. what is solar energy?
D. what is solar energy?
500
Producers in this zone tend to be blind, able to withstand extreme pressure, and produce food by synthesizing chemicals that are released from the ocean floor instead of photosynthesis..
A. What is the Intertidal Zone?
B. What is the Aphotic (Deep Ocean)Zone?
C. What is the Photic Zone?
D. What is the Continental Shelf Zone?
B. What is the Aphotic (Deep Ocean) Zone?
500
The step that is the most important in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
What is photosynthesis?
500
Rainbow trout need at least 6.0 mg/L of dissolved oxygen to survive. Biologists are trying to reestablish rainbow trout in a mountain stream but the stream only has 5.5 mg/L of dissolved oxygen. Identify which of the following would be the most useful to encourage the development of the rainbow trout population.
A. Create more bends in the stream to allow the water to slow down.
B. Cut down trees along the stream to allow more sunlight to penetrate the water.
C. Pull out aquatic plants growing in the stream to allow oxygen to accumulate.
D. Remove dams along the stream to allow the water to flow faster
B. What is Cut down trees along the stream to allow more sunlight to penetrate the water?
600
Frozen water amazingly does not harm the aquatic organisms that are found swimming around beneath it. Give the reason that this is even possible.
a. What is Ice is heavier than liquid water so the animals actually don't survive?
b. What is The ability of water to dissolve most things?
c. What is The covalent bond between water molecules allows this phenomenon to occur?
d. What is Ice is less dense, causing it to float and providing insulation for the aquatic organisms?
d. What is Ice is less dense, causing it to float and providing insulation for the aquatic organisms?
600
This is the process in which liquid water changes into invisible water vapor.
What is evaporation?
600
Identify which of the following statements is a way that pH could affect aquatic ecosystems.
A. What is By increasing the salt concentration in different aquatic environments?
B. What is By helping to increase the temperature of the water in times of extreme cold?
C. What is By causing production of sea shells that have dissolving ridges and abrasions?
D. What is By causing an increase in predator species to migrate into the area?
C. What is By causing production of sea shells that have dissolving ridges and abrasions?
600
An increase in the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere can cause atmospheric temperatures to increase. Identify the statement that best explains how this could affect the ocean as a carbon sink.
a. What is Less atmospheric carbon dioxide would be available to phytoplankton?
b. What is Less carbon dioxide gas would be contained in the ocean because increasing precipitation would dilute the carbon entering the ocean?
c. What is Dissolved carbon dioxide gas in the ocean would increase because surface winds would cause a deeper circulation pattern, making more room for the gas?
d. What is Less carbon dioxide would be dissolved in the ocean because increasing atmospheric temperatures would cause the ocean temperature to increase?
d. What is Less carbon dioxide would be dissolved in the ocean because increasing atmospheric temperatures would cause the ocean temperature to increase?
600
T/F: Polarity is the property of water that enables water to be a universal solvent.
What is TRUE?
700
Large bodies of water, such as lakes and oceans, do not quickly fluctuate in temperature. Identify the reason for this phenomenon.
What is high specific heat (high heat capacity)?
700
Water from precipitation that flows over land as surface water instead of being absorbed into the ground or evaporating.
a. What is groundwater?
b. What is accumulation?
c. What is runoff?
d. What is condensation?
c. What is runoff?
700
What abiotic factor can be found or inferred in this photo?
A. What is Coral?
B. What is Fish?
C. What is Salinity?
D. What is Mollusks?
C. What is Salinity?
700
Carbon is the backbone of life on Earth. We are made of carbon, we eat carbon, and our civilizations—our economies, our homes, our means of transport—are built on carbon. We need carbon, but that need is also entwined with one of the most serious problems facing us today: global climate change. Identify the key reasons for this phenomenon.
What are greenhouse gases and deforestation? (answers may be adjusted per teacher)
700
Identify this Water Process.
What is Sublimation?