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Ecosystems
Adaptations
Food Chains
Human Impact
100
An eagle's sharp beak, which allows it to tear into its prey: physical adaptation or behavioral adaptation?
What is physical adaptation?
100
A group of a single species of animals living in the same place.
What is a population?
100
A special body part or structure that helps an organism survive.
What is a physical adaptation?
100
The primary source of energy that begins nearly every food chain.
What is the sun?
100
The name for air pollution that looks like smoky fog.
What is smog?
200
London's smog crisis in 1952: air pollution or water pollution?
What is air pollution?
200
A group of populations living in the same place.
What is a community?
200
Something an organism does, or a way it acts, that helps it survive.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
200
The animal population that would increase in the following food chain if sea otters disappeared: kelp-->sea urchins-->sea otters-->sharks
What is the sea urchin population?
200
The name of the ship that leaked over 11 million gallons of oil into the ocean off the coast of Alaska in 1989.
What is the Exxon-Valdez?
300
Hurricanes and tornadoes: man-made problems or natural disasters?
What is natural disasters?
300
An organism's home-- for example, the truffula trees that the Lorax lived in.
What is habitat?
300
A behavioral adaptation in which an animal goes into a deep sleep to survive the cold temperatures of winter.
What is hibernation?
300
Out of producers and consumers, the organism that typically appears earlier in the food chain.
What are producers?
300
A way to turn a used piece of aluminum into something brand new again.
What is recycling?
400
When a person crumples up a piece of paper and throws it in the recycling bin: reduce or reuse?
What is reduce?
400
An ecosystem that features extreme dryness, and is home to organisms such as snakes, camels and fennec foxes.
What is a desert ecosystem?
400
A physical adaptation that allows an animal like a polar bear to blend in with its surroundings in order to help it survive.
What is camouflage?
400
The term that describes multiple food chains laid across each other to show that certain animals are not just members of a single food chain.
What is food web?
400
The character Dr. Seuss created to help humans see what they might do to the environment unless they begin to care more.
Who is the Once-Ler?
500
Human beings: herbivore, omnivore or carnivore?
What is omnivore (or herbivore, if vegan)?
500
An ecosystem that features heavy rain and lush plant life, and is home to organisms such as tropical birds, jaguars and tree frogs.
What is a rainforest ecosystem?
500
A behavioral adaptation in which an animal travels from one place to another for a period of time in order to survive.
What is migration?
500
The term used to describe the animal(s) in the food chain that all the energy flows to.
What is apex predator(s)?
500
A scientific theory that humans are causing the average temperatures across the earth to rise.
What is global warming?