Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Vocabulary Needs Energy Flow Environmental Impact 300

Question Column What is the best thing to do with a used plastic bottle?

Answer Column Recycle or Reuse it!

Question Column It is important to recycle nonrenewable resources because they are_________?

Answer Column Limited

Question Column Define and list 2 examples of nonrenewable resources?

Answer Column Resources that can not be replenished (grown again) in your lifetime. Examples : oil, coal, natural gas, iron

Question Column Define and give 2 examples of renewable resources.

Answer Column Resources that can be replaced or grown again. Examples: Trees, fish

Question Column Why is it important to recycle nonrenewable resources?

Answer Column Once they are used up we can’t replace them.

Question Column Define a food chain.

Answer Column The path of energy in food from one organism to another.

Question Column Give a synonym for detrimental.

Answer Column Bad, harmful

Question Column Give a synonym for the word beneficial.

Answer Column Good, helpful

Question Column Define and draw a food web.

Answer Column Overlapping food chains in an ecosystem

Question Column Define carrying capacity and name one thing that limits it.

Answer Column The number of living things that any area of land or water can support at one time. It can be limited by the amount of water, food, shelter, or space.

Question Column Name four out of the six basic needs

Answer Column Food, water, air, waste disposal, shelter, space

Question Column Name a need that an alien species would provide an ecosystem.

Answer Column It provides food.

Question Column Does there have to be more predators or more prey in a relationship and why?

Answer Column There must be more prey because the predator uses more energy and therefore needs more energy than one prey can provide.

Question Column Photosynthesis changes light energy into what kind of energy?

Answer Column Chemical energy

Question Column Name 2 adaptations the cactus has that lets it meet its need of water.

Answer Column Shallow roots, spongy stem, thorns, etc.

Question Column What type of organism is found first in a food chain?

Answer Column Producer

Question Column What way do the arrows point in a food chain?

Answer Column The energy flows to the eater.

Question Column Create a food chain with these organisms: snake, grass, frog, grasshopper.

Answer Column Grass to grasshopper to frog to snake

Question Column What level of an energy pyramid has the most energy?

Answer Column Bottom

Question Column What part of the food chain gets its energy directly from the sun?

Answer Column Plants

Question Column Name a beneficial and a detrimental effect if rabbits were brought into an ecosystem that doesn’t normally have rabbits.

Answer Column 5-100

Question Column Tell one way an earthworm can have a beneficial effect on its environment.

Answer Column Aerates the soil, puts nutrients (nitrogen) back into the soil, provides bait for fishermen, etc.

Question Column Tell one way a beaver can have a detrimental effect on its environment.

Answer Column Destroys habitat or food of other animals when it takes down trees.

Question Column If a farmer were to use a pesticide on his crop, what are two detrimental effects that might happen to the environment?

Answer Column )Herbivores might ingest the poisons and 2.) the poison would get passes through the food chain.

Question Column If trees were cut down to make space for a new shopping center, how would this affect the deer population and why.

Answer Column The population would decrease because the deer would not be able to meet their needs of food or shelter.