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What is biotic?
Nonliving things
Living organisms
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How do species suffer when humans use too much of a natural resource? (Select all that apply)
Loss of habitat
Make species change habitats
Endanger Species
Change Habitat Conditions
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Three ways we can change human activity to manage pollution (Select all that apply)
Economic incentives
Education
Community Groups
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This act protects our navigable water of the United States
Clean Water Act
Protect the Waters Act
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What is a niche?
Described as the role the organism plays in the ecosystem
An ecological area inhabited by a particular species.
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What is precipitation?
water vapor released from leaves of plants
water moving from clouds to ground
water soaking into the soil
water moving across the surgace
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What are the two categories of water pollution? (Select all that apply)
Point Source
Nonpoint Source
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Define what Point Source is.
Water Runoff
Pollutants are discharged from an indefinable source.
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What does water do when it transforms?
Water moves from place to place, no change
The water changes state
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What does it mean when water transfers?
Water moves from place to place, no change
Water changes state
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What does water do when it evaporates?
Liquid to gas
gas to liquid
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What are examples of abiotic? (Select all that apply)
Sunlight
Water
Temperature
Rock
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What is transpiration?
water moving from clouds to ground
water moving across the surface
water vapor released from leaves of plants
water soaking into the soil
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A species that is likely to become extinct worldwide in the near future
Cites
Extinct
Extirpated
Endangered
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Define Pollutant.
Contaminant into a natural environment that causes harm.
Substance that is introduced that causes pollution.
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Humans influence the hydrological cycle through surface runoff
True
False
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What is an ecosystem?
A biological community and their environment
Parts of the Earth where living things and resources are
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What are three steps to quadrat sampling? (Select all that apply)
Randomize the quadrats you are going to count and record.
Record the organisms that are mostly in.
Establish a grid pattern over your study area.
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What is a community?
All the populations that live in a given place.
All the members of the same species that live in a given place.
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What are three principles of EcoTourism? (Select all that apply)
Profits stay in local communities
Local communities' input
Environmentally friendly
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Agriculture and food production influence the hydrological cycle
False
True
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What is an alien species?
Species that is in an area where it is not native.
A species that is native in an area.
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What does troph mean?
to buy
Food, feeding
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EcoTournism could still potentially cause damage to the ecosystem.
False
True
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Ocean circulation is driven by difference in temperature and salinity.
False
True
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What is a habitat?
An ecological area inhabited by a particular species.
Described as the role the organism plays in the ecosystem
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What are physical and chemical properties that water quality is tested for? (Select all that apply)
pH
Dissolved Oxygen
Turbidity
Nitrates, phosphates (Pollutants)
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What is a biosphere?
A Biological community and their environment
Part of the Earth where living thing and the resources are.
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What role does the sun play in the hydrological cycle?
Causes the Earth to dehydrate.
The solar radiation drives the entire cycle
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What is Ecology?
Study of animals
Study of the natural world.
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What are ways to clean-up and restore the damaged ecosystems. (Select all that apply)
Removing pllutant from ecosystems
Replanting or restocking lost populations and communities.
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What is a species?
One individual, a living being, a life form
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
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What are the benefits of EcoTourism?(Select all that apply)
Protect local species and ecosystems
Economic benefits to communities through jobs and service industry profits.
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What is an organism?
One individual, a living being , a life form
A group of organisms that can interbreed and produce fertile offspring
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How do visitors damage places they visit? Select all that apply
Damage to paths and buildings
Damage sites, like mountains and landmarks
Over-taxing local services like trash collection and water treatment.
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When was Earth Day first celebrated?
2014
1973
1970
2004
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no more of a particular species alive anywhere in the world
Extinct
Endangered
Threatened
Cites
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Example of Nonpoint Source Pollution (Select all that apply)
Factories
Residential Lawns
Farmland
Water runoff
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What are some ways to control release of pollutants (Select all that apply)
legislation and regulations
Developing technology for removing pollutant from emissions.
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What are the levels of organization from largest to smallest
Biosphere, ecosystem, community, population, organism
Biosphere, community, population, organism, ecosystem
Ecosystem, community, population, biosphere, organism
organism, population, community, ecosystem biosphere
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What is a heterotroph?
Organism that must get its carbon compounds form other organisms
An organism that makes it's own food.
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What is an endemic species?
Species that is in an area where it is not native.
Aspecies that is native in an area
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Define Pollution.
Substance that is introduced that causes pollution.
Introduction of contaminants into a natural environment that causes harm.
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What is Abiotic?
Nonliving things
Living organisms
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What is surface runoff?
Water soaking into the soil
Water moving from clouds to ground
Water moving across the surface
Water vapor released from leaves of plants
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Why do people take too much natural resources?( Select all that apply)
Trees for shelter
Sell for basic living
Hunting for Food
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What does water do when it moves through condensation?
liquid to gas
gas to liquid
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Example of Point Source pollution
Factories
Sewage
Ships
Farm
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Describe the three tiers to pollution management (Select all that apply)
Control release of pollutant into environment
Change Human Activity
Clean up pollutant and restore ecosystems.
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What is a consumer?
Organism that gets its carbon compounds form other organisms
organism that makes its own food.
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What is a population?
All the members of the same species that live in a given place
All the populations that live in a given place
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To protect and recover imperiled species and the ecosystems upon which they depend
Endangered Species Act of 1973
Clean Water Act
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Agreement between 183 countries to stop people from moving endangered species across national boundaries.
Clean Water Act
CITES
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What is a Producer?
organisms that get is carbon compounds from other organisms
Organism that is an autotroph
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What is autotroph?
Organism that can make it's own food.
Organism that must get its carbon compounds form other organisms
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What is percolation?
Water moving across the surface
Water vapor released from leaves of plants
water soaking into the soil
Water moving from clouds to ground
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Define what Nonpoint Source is.
Factory pollution
Water that moves and picks up pollutants, depositing into bodies of water.
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When is quadrat Sampling helpful?
When there is a little bit to count
When you don't feel like counting
When counting every organism would be too labor or time intensive.
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What are considered natural resources? (select all that apply)
Wood for building
Water
Food (animals and plants)
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What is the correct order of the food chain?
Producer, Apex, Tertiary, Secondary, Primary
Apex, Primary, Producer, Secondary, Tertiary
Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Producer, Apex
Producer, Primary, Secondary, Tertiary, Apex
