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Gases that cause global warming
What are greenhouse gases?
100
Type of scientific investigation involving the manipulation of variables
What is an experiment?
100
Original source of energy in ecosystems
What is the Sun?
100
Gradual change in species starting from bare rock and building up to a climate community over hundreds of years
What is primary succession?
100
The name of LSU's tiger mascot
Who is Mike?
200
Humans burning these causes an increase in greenhouse gases like CO2 and methane
What are fossil fuels?
200
The variable the experimenter changes to try to cause something to happen
What is the independent variable?
200
Organisms that consume primary consumers
What are secondary consumers?
200
Gradual reestablishment of a community after a disturbance like a fire or hurricane
What is secondary succession?
200
Headliners this year include Stevie Wonder, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, Snoop Dogg, and Nick Jonas
What is Jazz Fest?
300
SO2 gases from burning coal and gasoline cause low pH in precipitation
What is acid rain?
300
The variable the experimenter measures to determine if there has been an effect
What is the dependent variable?
300
A triangle that shows biomass, energy, or number of individual organisms in an ecosystem
What is a trophic pyramid?
300
Increasing concentration of toxins like DDT in upper trophic levels of a food web
What is biomagnification?
300
First day of Spring Break this year
What is March 24th?
400
Technical term for cutting down a lot of trees
What is deforestation?
400
Type of scientific investigation involving categorizing and naming a newly discovered species
What is classification?
400
Dry weight of an organism
What is biomass?
400
Author of Silent Spring
Who is Rachel Carson?
400
The winners of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidate nomination primaries in Louisiana
Who are Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump?
500
Runoff of nitrogen and phosphorous fertilizer causes algal blooms and decomposition resulting in low dissolved oxygen levels
What is eutrophication?
500
Type of scientific investigation involving reading background material about a topic
What is a literature survey?
500
Natural selection causes traits that are beneficial in a specific environment to become more common
What is adaptation?
500
Adaptations of seeds to fire
What is seronity?
500
Netflix tv show about a cutthroat fictional president which released its fourth season last week
What is House of Cards?