Impacts On Outdoor Environments

Question 1

Will there ever be more anger in earth than there is now?

Answer 1

No

Question 2

How does water get cleaned?

Answer 2

Through the natural process of the water cycle

Question 3

What are the stages of the water cycle?

Answer 3

• evaporation
• condensation
• precipitation
• transpiration
• infiltration
• run off

Question 4

What is evaporation?

Answer 4

The process of a liquids surface changing into a gas

Question 5

What does liquid water evaporate and become?

Answer 5

Water vapour

Question 6

What causes evaporation in nature?

Answer 6

The sunlight

Question 7

Why is condensation crucial?

Answer 7

Because it forms clouds

Question 8

What is precipitation?

Answer 8

Water released from clouds in the form of rain, hail or snow

Question 9

What is the primary source of water returning to the ground?

Answer 9

Precipitation

Question 10

What is transpiration?

Answer 10

The discharge of water into the atmosphere from the leaves or stems of plants

Question 11

What is infiltration?

Answer 11

The process by which water or precipitation soaks into subsurface soils and moves into rocks

Question 12

What is run off?

Answer 12

Run off is precipitation that does not get infiltrated into the soil, it makes its way to places where water collects

Question 13

What is a producer?

Answer 13

Occurs at the first level and captures sunlight to convert into chemical energy through photo synthesis

Question 14

What are the major producers on land?

Answer 14

Plants

Question 15

What are the major producers in aquatic environments?

Answer 15

Algae and certain types of bacteria

Question 16

What are consumers?

Answer 16

Animals that use the bodies of other organisms as a fuel source

Question 17

What is a primary consumer?

Answer 17

Herbivore

Question 18

What is a tertiary or secondary consumer?

Answer 18

Carnivore or omnivore

Question 19

What is a decomposer?

Answer 19

Decomposers break down organic material and use decomposed products such as nitrogen, phosphorus and magnesium to supply themselves wth energy

Question 20

Why do we need decomposers?

Answer 20

If there were no decomposers important elements such as nitrogen, phosphorus and magnesium would be left in the remains of dead organisms

Question 21

Each level or link in a food chain or web is known as

Answer 21

A trophic level

Question 22

What happens when an organism is removed from a food chain or web?

Answer 22

• disrupt energy flow
• limit food source for predators
• lead to imbalance
• reduce biodiversity
• habitat disruption

Question 23

What is the difference between a food chain and web?

Answer 23

A food chain is very simple whereas a food web is much more complicated and has a number of interconnected food chains from which energy flows through

Question 24

What is the positive of a food web?

Answer 24

Creates more stability by having more links between producers and consumers

Question 25

How do animals release stare back into the atmosphere?

Answer 25

Urine, sweat, respiration

Question 26

What is a renewable energy source?

Answer 26

Energy from a source that is not depleted

Question 27

What is sustainable development?

Answer 27

Economic development that is conducted without the depletion of natural resources

Question 28

What is abiotic?

Answer 28

Physical not biological, was never living

Question 29

What is biotic?

Answer 29

Was living or is living

Question 30

What are examples of biotic factors?

Answer 30

Animals, plants etc.

Question 31

What are examples of abiotic factors?

Answer 31

Rock, sand, dirt, water, wind etc.

Question 32

How are management zones used?

Answer 32

By land managers to outline areas of public land to assist with minimising conflicts between activities, users and the protection of the parks habitats

Question 33

What do management areas do to help?

Answer 33

Help protect areas that need greater conservation and allow recreation in suitable areas

Question 34

What did John butler do?

Answer 34

Created the song ‘Kimberley’ to make a stand against the WA government gas company, Woodside, from building a gas refinery in the Kimberley region

Question 35

Why was John butler fighting for the protection of the Kimberley region?

Answer 35

Because it holds great cultural significance to indigenous Australians which would have been destroyed along with biodiversity