Test Review

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Test Review

• Chapter 19 Natural Resources, Energy, and
  Pollution
• Biomes
• Water Systems

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• Q Name a source of pollution
• A Transportation, electric production,
  manufacturing, food production, volcanoes, and
  others
• Q When do animals and decomposers show up during
  succession?
• A When there is something to eat! After grasses
  and weeds
• Q What organisms have humans modified for
  commercial use?
• A Cattle, sheep, chickens, grain products
• Q Name an adaptation for an organism living on
  the tundra
• A Fur coats, short height, stocky legs, etc.
• Q How is water important to living things?
• A No substitute, all need it to survive, basis
  of life, sculpts landscape, dilutes pollution,
  etc.

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• Q What is an indicator species?
• A Serves as an early warning that a community or
  ecosystem is in danger of damage
• Q Where do we find our natural resources?
• A Oceans, mountains, forests
• Q Draw up an ingredients list for your drink at
  lunch and the energy use and pollution for
  getting it and its packaging to you
• A Discussion.
• Q What is one of the main limiting factors of
  water systems?
• A Temperature
• Q Name a producer in the savanna
• A Grass, acacia tree, etc.

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• Q Muddy water, as opposed to clear, is an
  example of a streams this
• A Turbidity
• Q Abiotic factors include what?
• A Air, temperature, soil, water (and others)
• Q What do fish breathe?
• A Dissolved oxygen from the water
• Q Name an animal that lives in the rainforest
• A Anaconda, piranha, parrot, monkey, etc.
• Q Name one of the environmental risks we
  discussed
• A Chemical pesticides, insecticides,
  fertilizers, genetic alteration, etc.

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• Q Describe the climate of a rainforest
• A humid, 50-200 of rain per year
• Q Name a producer in the tundra
• A Lichen, moss, willow, etc.
• Q What is pollution?
• A Contamination of water, air, or soil
• Q Term for the energy it takes to get energy,
  that you need to find, extract, and transport it
  before you can use/consume it
• A Net energy

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• Q Term for how an ecosystem supports its
  inhabitants
• A Sustainability
• Q Rivers serve in what capacity in regard to
  floodwater and sediment?
• A Convey/carry both flood waters and sediment
• Q Primary consumers eat what?
• A Plants or producers
• Q What do we use natural resources for?
• A Transportation, building materials, home
  heating, electricity production, and others
• Q What role does topography play in runoff?
• A Affects direction and speed

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• Q In a balanced ecosystem, how much do
  population sizes of different species change?
• A Not much
• Q What is the impact of a drought of wheat in
  Australia or disease in produce from Chile in
  January?
• A Cause shortage of supply of wheat products and
  fruits and vegetables, respectively. May lead to
  higher prices or need to find alternate sources.
• Q If this biome received more rainfall, it would
  turn into forest less, a desert
• A Grassland (savanna, prairie)
• Q These eat dead things to get their energy
• A Decomposers

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• Q Caribou appear in this biome
• A Tundra
• Q What is one of the functions of estuary or
  coastal wetlands?
• A Protection from storm surges and erosion, fish
  spawning, bird habitat
• Q What is the function of barrier islands?
• A Protection from waves, serve as habitat for
  dune-dwelling organisms
• Q What about lake margins?
• A Deposition area for sediment and nutrients,
  fish spawning
• Q Give an example of an indicator species
• A Birds, trout, amphibians

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• Q What plant adaptations do desert plants have?
• A No leaves, waxy skin, deep roots, among others
• Q Biome thats not too hot, not too cold, with
  lots of trees?
• A Temperate deciduous forest
• Q To adapt for life in the alpine biome, this
  might be helpful?
• A Hibernation, migration, fat storage, short
  legs, and others
• Q Name an environmental impact of our use of
  natural resources?
• A Pollution, deforestation, they run out, etc.

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• Q T/F a damaged ecosystem will eventually return
  to its prior condition
• A True
• Q What is an adaptation made by polar or tundra
  plants?
• A Small size, low profile
• Q The second floor of Central is an example of
• A Community or ecosystem
• Q Groups of animals and plants adapted to
  similar conditions is known as what?
• A Community
• Q Animal adaptations to grasslands include
• A Burrowing claws, fur that blends, herd
  instinct, among others

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• Q Treeless plain is the meaning of this biome?
• A Tundra
• Q An example of a savanna plant includes
• A acacia, grass, willow, baobab, palm tree,
  among others
• Q Too much or too little of any abiotic factor
  is known as
• A Limiting factor
• Q A furry rodent running across the floor of our
  classroom is an example of what component of an
  ecosystem?
• A Organism

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• Q These biomes cover the least amount of land
  area on Earth
• A Rainforests
• Q An omnivore will eat
• A Everything (plants and animals)
• Q Epiphytes, or air ferns, get their food from
• A Moisture in the air
• Q Limits to population growth include
• A Birth, death, emigration, immigration
• Q Where do we find rainforest biomes?
• A Mostly along the Equator, in South America,
  Africa, Southeast Asia, among others
• Q What role does runoff play in topography?
• A Forms v-shaped valleys, creates meanders in
  rivers

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• Q How long does it take soil to form after a
  disaster such as a volcanic eruption?
• A Hundreds to thousands of years
• Q An example of a non-renewable resource
• A Coal, gas, oil, uranium (nuclear)
• Q These eat other organisms
• A Consumers
• Q This biome has the least amount of
  precipitation
• A Desert or polar or tundra
• Q What is nutrient loading?
• A When excess nitrogen or phosphorus cause
  growth of plants in water, blocking light from
  other organisms

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• Q What is an aquifer?
• A A ground water source, or underground river or
  lake
• Q What is the relationship between flow rate and
  sediment in the water?
• A The faster the rate, the more sediment can be
  carried
• Q Give an example of a biotic element in the
  Central ecosystem
• A You, Mickey, roach, teacher, etc.
• Q What is the order of plants returning during
  succession?
• A Grass, weeds ? shrubs ? small trees ? large
  trees

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• Q In secondary succession, how long does it take
  for plants to grow after the disaster?
• A Weeks
• Q What is an example of a renewable natural
  resource?
• A Water, wind, solar, geothermal