Vocabulary
The living and decaying entirety of earth's biomes.
What is the biosphere?
What banned chemical nearly wiped out bald eagles?
What is DDT?
A map that shows altitude.
What is a topographic map?
Includes the abiotic as well as biotic factors.
What is the ecosystem?
What is "well" in Spanish?
What is pozo?
The company that was polluting the Peril River. (Think back to the WebQuest)
What is the farm?
What can excess nitrites do to the environment?
Cause excess algae
Any biotic individual.
What is organism?
What is "pollution" in Spanish?
What is contaminación?
How do chemicals spread throughout the environment?
Primary consumer eats producer: Ingests chemical secondary consumer eats primary, tertiary consumer eats secondary, and all the while the chemicals build up inside each organism, and the resulting chemical mutations can be disastrous.
Why did more algae and bacteria bloom in the ocean than the source of the Peril River?
The farm used nitrites
Any group of a certain species at a certain time.
What is a population?
The infiltration of nuclear waste or chemical waste into the environment.(please write answer in Spanish)
What is contaminación?
How does biomagnification affect biodiversity.
It can destroy entire ecosystems, and devastate the biodiversity.
Why did we ban DDT?
So the biodiversity can continue to expand.
The sum of all populations in the area
What is community?
Which topographic map feature shows how water flows through the land?
What is contour lines?
What are three negative effects of pesticides?
(Answer may vary) It can lower biodiversity, kill needed animals, and decimate populations
What was the average dissolved oxygen rate for Test Site 1 and 6
9 and 3
What is population in Spanish?
Populación