Intro/What is Science?
A testable statement proposing an explanation to a question or phenomena.
What is a hypothesis?
The maximum amount of individuals that an area can sustain
What is carrying capacity?
The area where fresh water and salt water mix.
What is an estuary?
The Thinnest layer of the earth, at the surface.
What is the crust?
When a species is over exploited by habitat loss or hunting.
What is endangerment/extinction?
Sunlight, soil, and fresh water because they never run out.
What is a renewable resource?
Seattle's is temperate with a considerable amount of seasonal rain.
What is climate?
A substance that expands as a solid, has a neutral pH, and high specific heat.
What is water?
Despite a mineral possibly changing color, this mark left when scraping a mineral on a hard surface never changes.
What is a streak?
This classroom has 10 windows, 3 doors, and 20 tables
What is Quantitative data?
The Ecological impact that you personally have on the environment.
What is an ecological footprint?
An organism that can do photosynthesis and convert energy into its own food.
What is a primary producer? or What is an autotroph?
An impermeable barrier between aquifers. It will confine an aquifer.
What is an aquitard?
The concept that the material of the mantle is slow moving in convection currents.
What is plastic rock?
The type of water pollution that occurs from events such as fertilizer runoff.
What is nutrient pollution?
The _____ includes plants and animals in the natural world, Humans and their impact, and the nonliving area around all the above.
What is the environment?
The unique role an organism plays in an ecosystem.
What is a Niche?
the process that transfers water from the leaves of trees into the atmosphere
That is transpiration?
Formed from existing rocks through processes driving by extreme heat and pressure.
What is metamorphic rock?
They are generally cold, faster flowing, and low in biodiversity.
What are headwaters?
The ecosystem service utilized when you exact something from the ecosystem for human consumable use (Such as building, or food)
What is a provisioning service?
A strategist that is generally small, have a short life expectancy, and low levels of parental care.
What is a R strategist?
They are areas that are wet most of the year, have vegetation that could not live outside the environment, and play a major role in slowing the release of carbon into the atmosphere.
What are wetlands?
The exact location underground where an earthquake occurs.
What is a focus?
Effects organisms at the top of the food web at high trophic levels.
What is biomagnification of POPs?