Soil Ecosystems Water Waste Management All things ENR
100
What is the soil horizon that contains dirt with organic material, small rocks, bugs, worms, and minerals?
A (Topsoil)
100
What is the basis of the food chain?
Producer
100
What can give us an indication of how healthy the water system is?
Bioindicators like macroinvertabrates
100
What is the problem of increased cloudiness of the water entering a water system?
Increased turbidity causes less oxygen which causes loss of plant and animal life
100
What are 2 types of weathering?
Mechanical
Chemical
200
What is the smallest soil particle?
Clay
200
What are the two main categories of an ecosystem?
Biotic and Abiotic Communities
200
What is the relationship between temperature and oxygen in water
The higher the temperature the lower the dissolved oxygen
The lower the temperature the higher the dissolved oxygen
200
What is the agency that has made regulations for many of environmental areas in our lives today?
EPA Environmental Protection Agency
200
What are the 3 processes that cause erosion?
Wind
Moving water
Waves
300
What is the tool we use to determine what kind of soil we have?
Texture triangle
300
What is the predictable, gradual transformation of land slowly over time?
Ecological succession
300
What are the 2 categories of pollution?
Point source and
Nonpoint source
300
What are the 3 phases of processing municipal waste at the water treatment facility?
Primary treatment = physically separating wastewater from large objects
Secondary treatment = biological system to remove dissolved organic matter from the wastewater
Tertiary treatment = used only if for human consumption, chemical processing of wastewater
300
What is radio telemetry?
Helps track the movement and behaviors of animals. It uses the transmission of radio signals to locate a transmitter attached to the animal of interest
400
What is in soils that are yellow or red?
Iron oxide
400
What are the 3 cycles that matter is recycled through?
Carbon, nitrogen, and water cycles
400
What is the process that through the food chain, the POPs are concentrated, leading to much higher levels in the top predators than lower in the food chain
Biomagnification
400
What are the different types of animal waste treatment and handling systems?
Solid waste system
Slurry system
Lagoon system
400
What is involved in the ENR competition?
ID, knowledge test, team activity, water analysis, soil profile, data interpretation, GPS, waste management
500
What is the ideal agriculture soil made up of in percentages?
10-20% clay
40% sand
40% silt which would make it a loam
500
What are 5 of the 8 ecosystems?
Arctic Tundra Coniferous Forest
Temperate Forest Tropical Rain Forest
Grasslands Wetlands
Deserts Aquatic
500
What are 4 of the water quality tests that measure chemical characteristics which help to determine its cleanliness?
pH
Temperature
Dissolved Oxygen
Turbidity
Nitrates
Phosphates
Total dissolved oxygen
500
What are 2 of the 3 types of pollution when manure is not managed well?
Air pollution
Water pollution
Soil pollution
500
What are 5 of the 6 ways to identify an animal in ENR?
Pelt, bone, actual specimens, photos, tracks or scat






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