Unit 1&2
Burning Wood is an example of this type of change.
What is a chemical change?
All of the air on earth is a part of this sphere.
What is atmosphere?
Cabbage palms are from Florida and live in Florida. They are this type of species.
What is a Native Species?
A mix of fresh and salt water.
What is brackish?
All of the animals in a particular region
What is Fauna?
Hydropower is an example of this type of resource.
What is a renewable resource.
An organism that breaks down decaying materials.
What is a decomposer?
Pythons have been introduced to FL and have negative environmental impacts.
What is an invasive species?
Area where freshwater rivers meet the ocean.
What is an estuary?
When parts of a habitat are destroyed, leaving behind smaller, unconnected areas.
What is habitat fragmentation?
The variable that the scientist is changing.
What is an independent variable.
An organism that only eats consumers.
What is a carnivore?
Rats are found almost everywhere in the world and eat just about everything.
What is a generalist species?
A large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat.
What is a biome?
A species that is seriously at risk of extinction.
What is endangered species?
Numeric data that can be counted or measured.
What is quantitative data.
When solid water changes directly into water vapor.
What is sublimation?
Grasshoppers with different mating calls cannot attract others to mate and breed.
What is reproductive isolation?
The reason insects can walk on water.
What is surface tension?
What is biomagnification?
A well-documented description of how the natural world works.
What is a law?
Lightning, bacteria, and Hager-bosch are examples of this.
What is nitrogen fixation?
Lichens disappear in the presence of air pollution because they are this type of species.
What is an indicator species?
Rivers and streams are examples of this type of water body.
What is lotic?
The international legal instrument for "the conservation of biological diversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of the benefits arising out of the utilization of genetic resources"
What is the Convention of Biological Diversity?