Earthworks Flashcards

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Food Web?

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Several food chains connected together that begin with the sun

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Food chain?

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Energy from food that is passed from organisim to another

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Consumer?

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A living thing that gets energy from eating plants and animals

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Carnivore?

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Consumer that only eats animals such as hawk

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Herbivore?

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Consumer that only eats plants such as a giraffe

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Omnivore?

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Consumer that eats both plants and animals such as a bear

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Producer?

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A plant that gets energy from the sun

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Decomposer?

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An organisim that eats dead plant and animal matter and recycles it back into the earth

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Predator?

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Animal that hunts and eats other animals

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Prey?

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Animals that are hunted or are being hunted

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Water cycle?

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The recycling of water

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Precipitation?

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Water falling to the earths surface such as rain, sleet, snow, or hail

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Hydrosphere?

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All the water on, above, and below the earth, in the atmosphere

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Lithosphere?

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Outer crust of the earth and ocean floor

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Biosphere?

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All the plants and animals on earth (Bio-life sphere-circle)

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Community?

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Where different groups interact with each other

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Habitat?

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The home of a plant or animal

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Air cycle?

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Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between plants animals

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Ecosystem?

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Relationship between living and non-living things

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Organisim?

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Living thing

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What is the difference between renewable resources and non-renewable resources?

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Renewable- resources that don’t get used up

Non-renewable- resources that get used faster than the earth can produce

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What are some examples of fossil fuels?

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Coal, oil, natural gas

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Why is it important to recycle?

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  • we don’t run out of resources

- don’t pollute the earth

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What are different ways people pollute the earth?

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Smog, water, littering, traffic, landfills

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Why are decomposers important in the food chain

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They eat dead plants and animals and recycle it back into the earth

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Name your animal and one you learned about it

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Belted Kingfisher, it is the only kingfisher in the U.S

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Describe one thing you learned at earthworks that you didn’t know before the field trip

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That a natural disaster is good because it can start up again

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Why did we do the water recycling activity? What did we learn?

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To watch the water cycle in progress