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The study of organisms and their environment.
What is ecology?
100
A word that means a resource is used at a rate that allows it to never run out.
What is sustainability?
100
Substances that cause pollution.
What are pollutants?
100
This can happen to a species as a result of loss of habitat or over-hunting.
What is extinction?
100
All studies must have this first to compare with future findings of an ecosystem.
What is baseline data?
200
Water, oxygen, a nest and worms are examples of these for a robin.
What are the basic needs?
200
One of the 3Rs that is practiced when you use less of a material.
What is reduce?
200
This occurs when toxic substances enter a food chain and build up in the higher level organisms.
What is bioaccumulation?
200
Lichens and mosses are part of the first step in this process of breaking down solid rock to create soil.
What is succession?
200
Some scientists feel that this "global" problem is man-made and others feel that it is naturally occurring.
What is global warming?
300
The human body is made up of approximately 66% of this substance?
What is water?
300
A food web is made up of a number of these.
What is food chain?
300
A more scientific word for "plant sweat".
What is transpiration?
300
Before extinction, a species is put on this list.
What is endangered?
300
This particular common decomposer is a real "fun guy" that some people like to have at dinner.
What is a mushroom?
400
Mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism are 3 types of this.
What is symbiosis?
400
The start of all energy in a food chain.
What is the sun?
400
Coyotes and brown-headed cowbirds can live almost anywhere because they can do this in their environment.
What is adapt?
400
This type of monitoring uses "space" to look down on Earth"s surface to look for changes.
What is physical monitoring?
400
The term used to describe an organism that is "home" to a parasite.
What is a host?
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Coal, trees, water and oil are 4 examples of this.
What is a natural resource?
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These animals like eating other animals that are already dead.
What is a scavenger?
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A non-chemical way of CONTROLLING pests.
What is biological control?
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An activity that scientists would use to get the most accurate results of a study of an ecosystem.
What is long-term monitoring?
500
A calculation of the amount of material, natural resources or energy required to meet our "needs" and "wants"
What is an ecological footprint?