Outdoor Education Vocabulary Beta

Which word means describing an organism that lives in water.

• Aquatic
• Recycling
• Food Web
• Interdependence

Which word means the green pigment in plants responsible for absorbing light energy for photosynthesis.

• Chlorophyll
• Aquatic
• Erosion
• Niche

Which word means organisms most active during the day.

• Diurnal
• Chlorophyll
• Food Web
• Species

Which word means describing a population that is declining to dangerously low numbers and may result in extinction.

• Endangered
• Diurnal
• Pollution
• Parasite

Which word means the wearing away of soil particles by wind and water.

• Erosion
• Interdependence
• Endangered
• Niche

Which word means the interconnecting combination of all food chains that exist in an ecosystem.

• Food Web
• Recycling
• Chlorophyll
• Pollution

Which word means the reliance of two or more organisms upon each other for survival.

• Interdependence
• Niche
• Terrestrial
• Parasite

Which word means the particular role of an organism in an ecosystem. Different organisms in different places can fill the role – in California, deer are grass-eaters; in Africa, antelope are considered grass-eaters.

• Niche
• Erosion
• Food Web
• Aquatic

Which word means an organism that lives on or in another organism and uses it for food and/or shelter.

• Parasite
• Interdependence
• Species
• Endangered

Which word means the contamination of air, water, or soil with undesirable amounts of natural or artificial compounds.

• Pollution
• Erosion
• Food Web
• Niche