Vocab Quiz 5/19 Review

There are many different types of ______s including rainforest, tundra, and grassland.

• food chain

• natural resource

• biome

• ecological footprint

____________ cannot be easily replaced in a short period of time.

• Nonrenewable resources

• renewable resources

• understory

• canopy

When drops of water become heavy enough, they fall to Earth as ______.

• permafrost

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

The study of where organisms live and how they got there is called (a)   .

A diagram that shows how much energy is available at each feeding level in an ecosystem is a(n)

• food web

• water cycle

• food chain

• energy pyramid

A(n) (a)   is where the fresh water from a river meets the salt water of an ocean.

___________ are the first organisms to move to an area after a major environmental event.

• Pioneer species

• Primary succession

• Secondary succession

• Permafrost

Coal and sunlight are examples of _________.

• natural resources

• environmental sciences

• pollution

• extinction

Riding a bicycle can ​_______ an individual's ecological footprint.

• decrease

• increase

A(n)​ ​ (a)   is a consumer that only eats plants.