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What are Natural Resources?
How Do Natural Cycles Affect Ecosystems?
How Do Humans Affect Ecosystems?
Vocabulary
Trivia
100
a material that is found in nature that is essential or useful to people
What is a natural resource?
100
Plants that first take root in an area with no previous vegetation.
What is primary succession?
100
Cutting down trees and other plants, pollute water, kill animals, fill wetlands.
How do people change ecosystems
100
A huge wetland that covered much of the southern tip of Florida
What is the Everglades
100
Plastic, ink, nylon, paraffin wax, polyester, inorganic fertilizer, polystyrene.
What are material made from fossil fuels.
200
Recycle, reduce, reuse.
What are activities people do to help conserve natural resources.
200
The movement through Earth's ecosystems of carbon as solids, liquids, or gasses.
What is carbon cycle.
200
People remove vegetation and forests to make farms and drain wetlands to build houses.
Why do people change ecosystems.
200
More common, a cycle that takes place when most, but not all, vegetation has been removed.
What is secondary succession
200
a visible layer layer close to the ground caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
What is smog
300
A resource that can't be replaced within a human lifetime.
What is nonrenewable resource?
300
The movement of nitrogen in different forms from living organisms to the nonliving part of the environment and back.
What is nitrogen cycle
300
99% of these tall grass prairies have been turned into farmland to grow wheat, corn, and oats because of their fertile soil
What is grassland
300
The gradual long term change of species in an ecosystem.
What is succession
300
plants that contain a certain type of bacteria that fix nitrogen from nitrogen gas to form ammonia an nitrates.
What are legumes
400
The careful use of resources so that they will last as long as possible.
What is conservation
400
carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and DNA
What are compounds that contain carbon
400
A useless, soggy place full of mud, insects, and dangerous animals.
What is wetland
400
The loss of an entire species occurring naturally or by actions of humans.
What is extinction.
400
The changing of nitrogen into a form that plants can use.
What is nitrogen fixation
500
Materials in the Earth and are often pumped from, or dug out of the ground.
Where do natural resources come from?
500
Seasons, tides, day and night, succession
What is natural cycle
500
A law that protects the habitats of endangered and threatened species.
What is Endangered Species Act (EPA)
500
Sulfur dioxide released by burning coal traveling in the atmosphere and mixing with water vapor then falls in percipitation
What is acid rain.
500
Compounds that contain carbon
What are organic compounds