Resources/Conservation
The prevention of a wasteful use of a resource.
What is Conservation?
A diagram that shows ONE path of energy through an Ecosystem.
What is a Food Chain?
The continuous movement of water within the earth.
What is the Water Cycle?
Solar energy
Renewable
Where does all our energy come from?
Sun
Things, materials, substances and components found in the natural environment. These things are not the result of human manipulation or creation.
What are Natural Resources?
An organism that only eats plants.
What is a herbivore?
When water changes to a gas due to heat.
What is evaporation?
Coal
Nonrenewable
What do the arrows represent in a Food Chain or Food Web?
The energy being transferred from organism to organism.
This could happen to a renewable resource if I do not use it wisely.
It could become non-renewable
The level of organisms that represent the MOST stored energy in the Ecosystem.
What are producers?
Any solid or liquid water that falls to Earth due to condensation in the atmosphere.
What is precipitation?
Moving Water
Renewable
Which is a organism that eats only plants called?
Herbivore
Being a responsible human being by taking care of the environment, planting things that are native to your community, and picking up litter are all examples of.....
Environmental Stewardship
The main energy source for the entire Ecosystem.
The Sun
The process in which stored energy is broken down so it can be used by an organism to survive.
What is Cellular Respiration?
Oil
Nonrenewable
What is likely to happen to the population of slugs if the population of thrushes decreases in a Food Web?
The population of slugs would increase.
A different word for "Man-made" resources.
What is "Synthetic?"
Organisms that break down dead materials and return the nutrients back to the soil.
The process of an orderly and predictable change in the structure of an ecological community over an long period of time.
What is Ecological Succession?
A resource that takes an extreme amount of time (longer than our lifetime) to be replaced.
What is a Nonrenewable resource?
Animals that help break down the dead organisms that fall to the ground are called?