Ecosystems
What type of organism eats both plants and animals?
What is an omnivore?
True of False: Solar and wind are renewable energy sources.
What is true?
What does the 3 Rs stand for?
What is Reuse, Reduce, Recycle?
Definition: The warming of Earth due to trapped greenhouse gases?
What do we call animals that are in danger of disappearing?
What is an endangered species?
What is an organism that makes its own food called?
What is a producer?
What device uses sunlight to make electricity?
What is a solar panel?
Why do some animals go extinct?
What is habitat loss/pollution/overfishing/hunting/climate change?
What natural event shakes the ground and can break roads and buildings?
What is an earthquake?
Definition: Plastics being dumped in oceans, rivers, or land.
What is plastic pollution?
What type of organism breaks down dead plants and animals?
What is a decomposer?
What is the main source of energy for life on Earth?
What is The Sun?
Definition: Using resources in a way that doesn’t run out or harm the planet.
What is sustainability?
Definition: The act of protecting natural areas or wildlife.
What is conservation?
Definition: Too many fish being caught too fast for oceans to recover.
What is overfishing?
What do we call all the living and nonliving things in an area?
What is an ecosystem?
What are carbon dioxide and methane examples of?
What are greenhouse gases?
What are examples of an items you can recycle?
What are plastic bags/ plastic bottles/ cans/cardboard/paper?
What is the layer of gases surrounding the Earth called?
What is the atmosphere?
What is the #1 cause of biodiversity loss?
What is deforestation?
What are the nonliving components (sunlight, temperature, water) of an ecosystem called?
What are abiotic factors?
What is the #1 naturally occurring greenhouse gas?
What is water vapor?
What type of bag is better for the environment: Plastic or paper?
What is paper?
What is the biggest living animal in the world today?
What is the blue whale?
Definition: The variety of all living things in a habitat or on Earth.
What is biodiversity?