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Ecology
Biosphere Changes
Environmental Science
Ecological Interactions
Ecological Issues
100
The study of ecosystems
What is ecology
100
The process by which burned organic matter releases stored carbon into the atmosphere, raising the average ambient temperature of earth
What is the greenhouse effect
100
Three layers of the biosphere
What are the lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere
100
Organisms that make their own food from inorganic molecules and energy
What are producers
100
One of two hypotheses behind the frog deformation problem in Minnesota
What is the 1) pesticide or 2) parasite
200
The living factors of the environment are referred to as this:
What is biotic
200
Broken off material from weathering is carried off in this process
What is erosion
200
This second layer of the atmosphere finds a temperature increase with altitude
What is the stratosphere
200
A layer in the structure of feeding relationships in an ecosystem
What is a trophic level
200
Logging practice whereby all trees in a given area are harvested, devastating the forest ecosystem
What is clearcutting
300
Everything that surrounds an organism
What is environment
300
Several large, moveable parts of the lithosphere
What are tectonic plates
300
All the parts of the earth that support and contain life
What is the biosphere
300
Organisms that cannot make their own food
What are consumers
300
The increasing concentration of a pollutant in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food web
What is biological magnification (or "biomagnification")
400
The specific environment in which a particular species lives
What is a habitat
400
The breaking down of rocks by weather and water
What is weathering
400
Those who eat the animals that eat the plants
What are secondary consumers
400
These two organisms consume the bodies of dead organisms and other organic wastes
What are bacteria and fungi
400
Local Springdale celebrity known as the "mother of ecology"
Who is Rachel Carson
500
All the different populations that live and interact in the same area
What is a community
500
A long period of cooling during which huge ice masses, called glaciers, grow and extend from Earth's polar regions
What is an ice age
500
A form of oxygen gas containing three oxygen atoms per molecule, found in the stratosphere
What is ozone
500
A network of food chains representing the feeding relationships among the organisms in an ecosystem
What is a food web
500
The #1 point to be gathered from an Ecology or Environmental Science class
What is that "Everything is Connected"