Ecosystem Energy
What is climate change?
What is a producer?
A natural process where Earth’s atmosphere traps heat.
What is the greenhouse effect?
This energy comes from the sun.
What is solar energy?
Cutting down lots of trees is called this.
What is deforestation?
The total number of people on Earth is called this.
What is human population?
This shows all the feeding relationships in an ecosystem.
What is a food web?
This gas is released from cars and burning fossil fuels and traps heat.
What is carbon dioxide (CO2)?
Energy made from old, dead organisms like coal and oil.
What are fossil fuels?
When cities grow and take over natural land.
What is urbanization?
When healthcare improves, people live longer. This is part of the ____ Revolution.
What is the Medical Revolution?
This cycle involves water evaporating, condensing, and falling as precipitation.
What is the hydrologic cycle?
When a species completely disappears from Earth.
What is extinction?
This type of energy resource can run out.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
When good farmland becomes desert.
What is desertification?
The amount of carbon you produce from your lifestyle.
What is a carbon footprint?
The top predator in a food chain is called this.
What is an apex predator?
These species show early warning signs of ecosystem damage.
What are indicator species?
Energy from moving water.
What is hydroelectric or tidal energy?
Pollution that enters water from a single, clear source (like a pipe).
What is point source pollution?
The number of babies born per woman.
What is fertility rate?
This law says energy is not created or destroyed, just transformed.
What is the first law of thermodynamics?
A long-term change in Earth’s temperature and weather patterns.
What is climate change?
This type of energy splits atoms to make electricity.This type of energy splits atoms to make electricity.
What is nuclear energy?
Growing the same crop over and over again.
What is monoculture?
A personal plan to reduce your environmental impact.
What is a sustainability plan?