These are the three cycles we learned about in chapter 5.
What are carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus?
100
This is the gradual process of change and replacement of the types of species in a community.
What is ecological succession?
100
Some consumers get their food by breaking down dead organisms. This is the term used to describe them.
What is decomposer?
100
This is the three word name for the assignment we did when we went outside.
What is school(yard) report card.
200
This is the process by which plants change carbon dioxide in to glucose which then becomes a carbohydrate.
What is photosynthesis?
200
Bones and teeth are formed primarily by this cycle.
What is phosphorus cycle?
200
This is the type of succession that occurs on a surface where no ecosystem existed before.
What is primary succession?
200
This is the term used to describe an organism that is both a herbivore and carnivore.
What is omnivore?
200
This is the two word term to describe when firefighters deliberately set fire to an area of land.
What is a controlled burn?
300
Name the place we talked about where organisms survive without photosynthesis.
What is the deep ocean or ocean floor?
300
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What is nitrogen fixing bacteria.
300
The first organisms to colonize an area are called this.
What is primary species?
300
This is the most common type of succession, occurring where an ecosystem previously existed.
What is secondary succession?
300
Name one of the two hazards we discussed that result from fertilizers draining into water supplies.
What are algae bloom and acid rain?
400
This is the two word term that describes the process of breaking down food to yield energy.
What is cellular respiration?
400
This gas makes up 78 percent of our atmosphere.
What is nitrogen.
400
This is the two word term to describe a final and stable community.
What is climax community?
400
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What is food web?
400
We ate some delicious raw green beans that are part of this family of plants because of the nitrogen fixing bacteria on their roots.
What are legumes?
500
This is the two word term to describe the transfer of energy through the food chain or food web in an ecosystem.
What is trophic level?
500
These are the two materials that carbonates are broken down into.
What are limestone and fossil fuels?
500
This is the organism that is typically a pioneer species to an environment. (Hint: It begins with the same letter as the first letter in my last name)
What is lichen?
500
These two terms are another way to describe autotrophs and heterotrophs.
What are producers and consumers?
500
Case Study: In the 1950s and 1960s birds of prey were dying in the United States from a chemical designed to kill mosquitoes. What was the three letter name for the chemical?