All of the interacting abiotic and biotic parts of a community.
What is an ecosystem?
100
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff and transpiration are all a part of THIS cycle.
What is the water cycle?
100
The organism at the very bottom of the food chain.
What is a primary producer?
100
Your _____________ footprint is something that most Canadians can reduce. It is a calculation of the total land and water needed to supply all the materials and energy a human uses.
What is your ecological footprint?
200
THESE are four basic needs of all living things.
What is air, water, food, habitat/shelter?
200
Where an organism lives
What is its habitat?
200
THIS is a substance that enters the environment faster than it can be broken down.
What is a pollutant?
200
Mosses, bacteria and lichens are the first to colonize rocks and sand under THIS type of succession.
What is primary succession?
200
Scientists use THIS type of data to start a study with.
What is baseline data?
300
You can thank THIS type of organism for breaking down decaying matter.
What is a decomposer?
300
The most energy that enters a food web comes from THIS source.
What is the sun?
300
Making a conscious effort to buy products that used less packaging.
What is reducing?
300
THIS type of monitoring uses biotic and abiotic factors to determine the overall health of a forest, for example.
What is ecosystem monitoring?
300
Humans that are starting a new project that may alter the environment need to complete THIS type of assessment to outline how the activity will affect the environment.
What is environmental impact assessment?
400
Hibernation is an example of THIS type of adaptation.
What is a behavioural adaptation?
400
One of four reasons an organism may be forced into extinction.
What is habitat loss, over exploitation (hunting), invasive introduced species, or pollution/climate change?
400
Humans have enabled THIS type of species to enter our environment, often with damaging effects, especially with non-native species.
What is an introduced species?
400
DDT, a pollutant and a pesticide to control mosquitoes does THIS to falcon egg shells.
What is makes them thinner?
400
Mercury, a pollutant magnifies itself within a food web via THIS process.
What is bioaccumulation or biomagnification?
500
Barnacles often hitch a ride on the back of whales, which enables them to get the food they need and whales are unaffected in THIS type of symbiotic relationship.
What is commensalism?
500
THIS word describes the role or characteristic activity an organism plays in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
500
Without THESE the natural environment can deal with all the natural pollutants on its own, otherwise, pollutants can be too much to handle.
What are humans?
500
Frogs are THIS type of species because they breathe through their skin and are sensitive to the environment around them.
What is a bioindicator species or indicator species?
500
THESE are examples of how the drive for our economy to grow and make money can affect the frequency of acid rain because they increase sulfur and nitrogen content in the air, further damaging our atmosphere.