Energy
A type of energy that dries clothes hung outside on a clothesline to dry.
What is Solar Energy?
The movement of air from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.
What is the wind?
A type of symbiosis when a parasite is living on a host.
What is parasitism?
A species that is non-native and causing harm to the environment.
What is an invasive species?
When humans reuse materials that would otherwise become garbage or pollutants.
What is recycling?
A material that resists the flow of electrons through it.
What is an insulator?
The wind you feel at the beach at night when the land cools faster than the water.
What is a land breeze?
The non-living factors of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
Unwanted substances in the environment.
What is pollution?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
A type of energy that moves from hot to cold.
What is thermal energy?
The two days of the year when the number of daylight hours and number of nighttime hours are the same.
What are the spring and fall equinoxes?
A triangle diagram showing that there is a decrease in energy as you move up the food chain.
What is an energy pyramid?
The result of increasing green house gases in the atmosphere.
What is global warming?
A biome with cactuses, dry climate, and extreme temperatures.
What is the desert?
Energy from RECENTLY living plants.
What is biomass energy?
What is the Gulf Stream Current?
A large region with a distinctive climate and vegetation.
What is a biome?
The biome with the highest amount of biodiversity.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The unit used to measure energy?
What is a joule?
Energy can not be created or destroyed. Energy can be transformed from one form to another.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
The day when the Arctic Circle has the most hours of daylight.
What is Summer Solstice?
The process producers use to change solar energy into glucose.
What is photosynthesis?
A planned management of a natural resource to prevent exploitation, neglect, or destruction.
What is conservation?
The amount of mass divided by the amount of volume.
What is density?