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Chapter 25
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Mr. Whybrew's Mystery
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The nonliving, physical features of the environment

What are Abiotic Factors?

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Name 2 renewable resources

What are sunlight, water, air, crops?

Renewable resources: any resources that are recycled or replaced by nature 

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True or False: Plants, some bacteria, fish, and animals all need oxygen for respiration.
What is true?
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This is how wind is made. (Describe what happens to cold and warm air).

What is: Cold air sinks and pushes warm air up?

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Environments that have more water (like rainforests) usually support a ______ diversity and _____ number of organisms.


What is greater and larger?
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Organisms use the chemicals found near hydrothermal vents to produce energy.


What is chemosynthesis?


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True or False: Fossil fuels are renewable resources.

What is False? Fossil fuels are NONrenewable resources.

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Most organisms are 50-______% water!

What is 95%?
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Consuming amino acids would be a part of which cycle that we learned in class.

What is "the nitrogen cycle"?
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Decaying matter found in soil is called this.

What is Humus?
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1. An energy pyramid shows the amount of energy available at each feeding level in an ecosystem. Only about __________ of the energy available is transferred to the next higher level.


What is 10%?
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Name two alternatives to fossil fuels.

What are: Water power, Wind power, Nuclear power, Geothermal energy, Solar energy?

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This is which one of the 3 Rs: a form of reuse that requires changing or reprocessing and item or natural resource.


What is recycle?
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Matter can be _____________ again and again. 


What is recycled?
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This location would likely have the warmer temperature: (select one) sea level, timberline, mountain peak, deep ocean trench.


What is sea level?
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Temperature at the equator is _________. Temperature at the polar caps are _________.

What is: Temperature at the equator is warmer. Temperature at the polar caps are colder?

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Name an abiotic factor that is a nonrenewable resource.

Either of these are good answers:

What are: The Fossil Fuels (OIL, NATURAL GAS, COAL)?


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This is the percentage of oxygen that is in the air.
What is 21%, or about 20%?
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Fossil Fuel combustible material found deep in Earth’s crust made from ___________________.


What are decayed organisms?

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FOOD WEB: Put these in the correct order- Slug, bird, lettuce, cat


What is "lettuce, slug, bird, cat"?

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An areas average weather conditions over time.


What is climate?
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Name a biotic factor that is also a renewable resource.
What are crops?
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Please give at least 3 examples of a nonliving things.

What are: light, water, air, soil, minerals?

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This is WHY air is warmer at the bottom of a mountain and colder at the peak of a mountain.

What is: Air becomes warmer when the sunlight heats the molecules and higher up in the atmosphere there are less molecules to heat (thinner air)?

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This is the 2nd half of this Dr. Seuss quote. "Don't cry because it's over. ..."

What is "Smile because it happened."?