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| what is a natural resource | any natural substance that living things use |
| what refers to everythig that surrounds us | the environment |
| what are our main environmental problems | pollution, resource depletion, extinction |
| what is a non-renewable resource | resources that cannot be replaced |
| what is a renewable resource | resources are continually being replaced even as they are being used up |
| why is pollution bad | becuz it poisons our air, water, and soil |
| what are some animals that are extinct | dodo bird, passenger pigeon, great auk |
| what is an iceberg | a large piece of ice floating on the water |
| what is science | its all the scientific information gathered by scientists thruout human history |
| what is a hypothesis | a scientific guess |
| what is one of the most important foundations of environmental science | ecology |
| why are using graphs important | they show information tested |
| when we are talking about the environment we are usually referring to | people, plants,animals,land, air,water, |
| an example of resource depletion is | texas petroleum running out |
| the use of bar graphs is especially effective for | showing several comparisons at once |
| to fully understand a complex environmental issue, you may need to consider | economics, values, and politics |
| what is an ecosystem | includes all the different organisms living in a certain area, along with their physical environment |
| what are the 2 things that an ecosystem is composed of | biotic and abiotic factors |
| what is an individual organism part of | population, community, ecosystem, biosphere |
| what is a niche | it's a way of life |
| what is predation | one organism kills and eats another organism |
| the organism that is eaten is called | prey |
| the one that does the eating is called | predator |
| name 5 major types of species interactions | predation, compitition, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism |
| what is competition | a relationship between species in which they attempt to use the same limited resource |
| what are organisms that live in or on another organism and feed on it without immediatly killing it | parasites |
| the organism the parasite takes its nourishment from is known as | host |
| the relationship between the parasite and its host is called | parasitism |
| the relationship between you and your intestinal bacteria is known as | mutualism |
| what is commensalism | the relationship in which one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped |
| what term did Darwin use to describe the unequal survival and reproduction that results from the presence or absence of particular traits | natural selection |
| which is not an abiotic factor in an ecosystem | bacteria |
| what is a producer | an organism that makes its own food |
| what is a consumer | an organism that get their energy by eating other organisms |
| where do almost all organisms get their energy directly or indirectly from | the sun |
| what is another name for a plant eater | a herbivore |
| what are canivores | flesh eaters |
| what eats everything | omnivores |
| what is cellular respiration | the process of breaking down food to yield energy |
| what happens each time one organism eats another organism | energy occurs |
| what is a food chain | a sequence |
