This is the name of the Christodora settlement house located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
What is the Christodora House?
100
Non-living components of a ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
100
An area of land that water flows over or through on its way to a river, bay, or ocean.
What is a watershed?
100
During this lesson the educators discuss the importance of ecosystems – and recognize the interdependency of living things.
What is the Foundation Lesson?
100
These people develop, implement and evaluate ecology lessons, and activities for the Winter Ecology Program.
What are the Environmental Educators?
200
This is the name of the Christodora camp that was based in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
What is Camp Northover?
200
Place or type of place where an organism or population of organisms lives.
What is a habitat?
200
This is what DEP stands for?
What is the Department of Environmental Protection?
200
In this lesson students will discover several common NYC bird species and identify the adaptations that allow it to thrive in the urban environment while also exploring the importance of birds in the ecosystem.
What is NYC Birds?
200
This collective group of people advice, supervise, and manage Christodora's finances, programming, and well being.
What is the Christodora Board?
300
He is the famed lyricist that was inspired by Christodora's Poets Guild.
Who is Ira Gershwin?
300
Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships.
What is a food web?
300
This is one way NYC protects its water supply.
What is improving water-related infrastructure, managing land and water resources, or working with partners?
300
This lesson exposes students to characteristics of real skins, skulls, and tracks from Northeast US species.
What is Animal Adaptations 1: Physical Adaptations lesson?
300
This person is the Executive Director of Christodora.
Who is Judith Rivkin?
400
This is the amount of years Camp Northover provided children with respite from the crowded tenements and the hot city summers.
What is 75 years?
400
This is the total way of life or role of a species in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
400
This is the definition of the water cycle.
What is an exchange of water molecules through the processes of evaporation, condensation, infiltration, and precipitation?
400
In this lesson educators will discuss the importance of water in our environment through an illustration of how much water on earth is available to humans and an activity that shows the journey of water through this system.
What is Water 1: Water, Water Everywhere lesson?
400
This is the first and last name of the person who is the coordinator of the New Youth Conservationists Program.
Who is Takeya Meggett?
500
Complete Christodora's Statement of Purpose:
Christodora, Inc. is a non-profit organization offering children from economically disadvantaged families in New York City a range of environmental education programs designed to increase their knowledge and understanding of the natural world and to challenge them to develop their self-confidence and leadership skills. Through our educational programs we seek to deliver responsible citizens who will be leaders in their communities, and will be effective _________________________________ .
What are stewards for the environment?
500
They recycle organic matter in ecosystems by breaking down dead organic material to get nutrients and release the simpler compounds into the soil and water where they can be utilized by other organisms.
What are decomposers?
500
Look at picture.... This is the name of this NYC watershed.
What is Croton Watershed?
500
In this lesson students learn that as humans require more and more land for development the students will be challenged to find a balance between development and preservation of land on earth.
What is Island Ecology – Fragmented ecosystems in NYC lesson?
500
This is the first and last name of the person who is the Manager of Finance & Administration at Christodora.