conserving our environment and artificial ecosystems
Questions:
1. Define conservation.
2. How has our attitude about the environment changed over the decades?
3. List the three basic principles of environmental conservation.
4. Name the method used to prevent agricultural land from eroding and explain how it
works.
5. Give the name for the cause of some water pollution and describe what it is.
6. What is effluent?
7. Why is conservation important?
8. What role does government play in conservation?
9. Define ecosystem.
10. What is the relationship between ecosystems and food chains?
11. When the global ecosystem is functioning effectively, the impact of what three things
may be minimized?
12. What is biodiversity?
13. In terms of food chains in what ways do plants and animals help perpetuate each
other?
14. In terms of the atmosphere in what ways do plants and animals help perpetuate each
other?
15. What are the three groups into which living things can be sorted?
16. What are producers? List three examples.
17. Define omnivore and give two examples.
18. What are decomposers? List three examples.
19. What does this statement mean? “The sun is the source of all life.”
20. Explain the system and processes of hydroponics.
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