Resources In A Ecosystem

Question 1

What are materials that are found in nature that are needed for humans?

Answer 1

Natural resources

Question 2

What are examples of natural resources?

Answer 2

Rocks, DHMO, H20, trees, water, grass oil, gold

Question 3

What is the MVR (most valuable resource)

Answer 3

Water

Question 4

How much water do Americans use a day?

Answer 4

40-100 gallons

Question 5

Whereas drinking water found?

Answer 5

Lakes, ponds, rivers, underground (wells)

Question 6

What uses waters energy to generate electricity ?

Answer 6

Hydroelectric dams

Question 7

How much building material do Americans use per year?

Answer 7

17,600lbs

Question 8

How much metal do Americans use per year?

Answer 8

55lbs

Question 9

How much oil do Americans use per year?

Answer 9

1,100 gallons

Question 10

where do we find all the resources needed?

Answer 10

THE EARTH!!

Question 11

How many mines are in the USA?

Answer 11

500,000

Question 12

what do the mines mine?

Answer 12

Coal, gravel, metals, rocks

Question 13

Where does oil pocket?

Answer 13

underground

Question 14

what is with oil?

Answer 14

Natural Gas

Question 15

Where is lumber found?

Answer 15

Forests

Question 16

What is the careful use of resources so that they can last as long as possible??

Answer 16

Conservation

Question 17

What are the two types of resources??

Answer 17

renewable and nonrenewable

Question 18

what cannot be replaced within a human lifetime?

Answer 18

Nonrenewable resource

Question 19

What are examples of nonrenewable resources?

Answer 19

coal, oil natural gas, metals

Question 20

What is a resource that can be replaced in a human lifetime?

Answer 20

renewable resource

Question 21

what are examples of renewable resources?

Answer 21

Animals and plants

Question 22

What are the 3 R’s?

Answer 22

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Question 23

What is reduce?

Answer 23

use less of a product

Question 24

What is reuse?

Answer 24

use an item again after its original use

Question 25

What is Rcycle?

Answer 25

To process used products into new ones

Question 26

What are the 4 parts of the water cycle?

Answer 26

Precipitation, condensation, evaporation, and collection

Question 27

What is The gradual long term change of plants in an ecosystem?

Answer 27

Succession

Question 28

What are the two types of succession?

Answer 28

primary and Secondary

Question 29

What is it when plants first take root in an area where no plannts were?

Answer 29

Primary Succession

Question 30

What is it when most but not all vegitation in an area has been removed?

Answer 30

Secondary Succession

Question 31

What are examples of Primary Succession?

Answer 31

Volcano, flood, fire

Question 32

What are examples of Secondary Succession?

Answer 32

Farmer cuts down trees

Question 33

What is it that we cannot exist without carbon?

Answer 33

The carbon cycle

Question 34

What is in carbon?

Answer 34

Carbohydrates, Facts, Proteins, and DNA

Question 35

What are compounds that contain carbon?

Answer 35

Organic compounds

Question 36

What is the movement through earths ecosystems of CARBON?

Answer 36

Carbon Cycle

Question 37

Which does not happen in the carbon cycle? A) Carbon Dioxide is used by plants in photosynthesis B) animals get rid of CO2 by respiration C) Resources are found underground D) Plants are fixed by bacteria

Answer 37

D

Question 38

What is the movement of Nitrogen through living and nonliving things?

Answer 38

Nitrogen Cycle

Question 39

What moves through an ecosystem like carbon?

Answer 39

Nitrogen

Question 40

``` Which is not a part of the Nitrogen cycle? A) Animals use N2 in protein and DNA B) Plants are fixed by bacteria C)Oil pockets underground D)Waste decays water ```

Answer 40

C

Question 41

Who are always changing ecosystems?

Answer 41

Humans

Question 42

People that are changing ecosystems are sometimes______ and sometimes_______

Answer 42

Harmful, Helpful

Question 43

What all provides us with resources?

Answer 43

Mining, Farming, and lodging

Question 44

The things that provide us with resources Harm what?

Answer 44

Land, Air, and Water

Question 45

What is the loss of an entire species?

Answer 45

Extinction

Question 46

What is something that has few individuals that could die out?

Answer 46

Endangered species

Question 47

What are examples of endangered species?

Answer 47

African Elephant and The Blue Whale

Question 48

What is the most diverse ecosystem on Earth?

Answer 48

Tropical Forests

Question 49

How much % have the tropical rain forests been destroyed?

Answer 49

almost 50%

Question 50

What have the tropical rain forests been destroyed for?

Answer 50

farmland, lumber, or oil

Question 51

What is the most disrupted ecosystem?

Answer 51

Grasslands

Question 52

How much percent of the prairie is gone?

Answer 52

99%

Question 53

What is an area that is covered by water most of the time?

Answer 53

Wetlands

Question 54

More than _____ the original _______ in the USA are gone

Answer 54

half, wetlands

Question 55

Which is an example of something that would happen in the Carbon Cycle? A) Most the vegetation in an area has been removed B) Animals get rid of CO2 by respiration C)Plants are fixed by bacteria

Answer 55

B

Question 56

What is an example of something that would happen in the Nitrogen Cycle? A) Animals use N2 in protein and DNA B) Liquid turns to gas C) Water falls from sky to land

Answer 56

A