The Big 5 - Unit 1 & 2
He created the world and everything on it & around it.
Who is God?
Citizens studying & protecting ecosystems.
What are citizen scientists?
Ernst Haeckel invented this word which basically means the study of the house or place to live.
What is ecology?
Global sum of all biomes in the world.
What is biosphere?
In Genesis 1:31, God declared this of everything.
What is "very good"?
Biotic
What is living?
Although this word wasn't used in the Bible, we use it to describe what scripture does say: One God who has always existed as three Persons, Father, Son, & Holy Spirit.
What is the Trinity?
This is the study of how energy moves through the living & nonliving parts of the environment.
What is ecosystem ecology?
William Derham was a Christian pastor who had a great interest in the sciences. He was among the first to write about this as a stewardship from God.
What is science?
In it's simplest form, this word means a group of creatures that can reproduce.
What is species?
1st John 4:16 says this of God.
What is "He is love"?
Baraminology
What is the study of two created kinds?
From the Latin meaning, this is the study of the house or place to live.
What is ecology?
Although God currently upholds the world like this, this was part of His original design. When the manifestation of the defeat of sin finally happens among humans on Earth, it will happen no more.
What is creatures having to die and be eaten?
This man studied the ecosystem as a series of interconnected living and nonliving relationships. Though this concept was not well received by the majority view of the day, it is well supported by current research.
Who is Eugene Odum?
Ways of doing things.
What are protocols?
Joshua 1:9 says to be this.
What is strong and of good courage?
Autotrophs
What are organisms that get their carbon from carbon dioxide?
Scientific names of animals come from one of these two languages. (Name at least one.)
What is Latin & Greek?
He was an American ecologist who was one of the first to look at ecology from the perspective of ecosystems by studying the interactions between the biotic community and abiotic physical aspects of the environment.
Who was Eugene Odum?
This German ecologist wanted nothing to do with the bible and was an outspoken evolutionist. In his research of embryos of animals, he saw only what he wanted to see.
Who is Ernst Haeckel?
These organisms are recyclers of nutrients from dead organisms, putting them back in the soil.
What are decomposers?
Jesus described Himself in John 10:11 as this.
What is the Good Shepherd?
Biodiversity
What is something that refers to the number & type of organisms & how they are related?
In deciduous & tropical rain forests; in swamps; near rivers, lakes, ponds, and oceans; in deserts; and all other wild places. Oh yeah, in laboratories, too.
Where do ecologists work?
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This moves through and affects the health and biodiversity of ecosystems, in the form of light and food.
What is energy?
In 2007, this university began the Odum School of Ecology, which is the first stand alone research wing devoted solely to ecological research.
What is the University of Georgia?
These consumers must obtain both their energy and carbon by eating other organisms. This includes people, fungi, and most animals.
What are heterotrophs or chemoorganotrophs?
According to Isaiah 11:6, "In that day, the wolf and the lamb will live together; the leopard will lie down with the baby goat. The calf and the yearling will be safe with the lion, and" this will happen.
What is a little child will lead them all?
Saprophytes
What are organisms that grow on, and get nutrition from, dead organisms or parts of organisms?