Ecology
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Renewable | Does not pollute the air or water.
🗑
|
||||
| Solar Energy | Energy from the sun.
🗑
|
||||
| Wind Energy | Is produced by the movement of air and converted into power for human use.
🗑
|
||||
| Water Energy | Is a clean renewable and reliable energy source.
🗑
|
||||
| Biomass Energy | Is any organic matter that can be used as an energy source.
🗑
|
||||
| Geothermal Energy | Is heat that is underground.
🗑
|
||||
| Fuel | Anything that produces energy, power, or heat.
🗑
|
||||
| Nonrenewable | It can't be made again.
🗑
|
||||
| Fossil Fuels | Essentially remains of plant and animal.
🗑
|
||||
| Conservation | Official supervision of rivers, forests, and other natural resources.
🗑
|
||||
| Pollution | Introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
🗑
|
||||
| Pollutants | Any substance, as certain chemicals or waste products, that renders the air, soil, or water.
🗑
|
||||
| Air Pollution | Introduction into the air of a substance which has harmful or poisonous effects.
🗑
|
||||
| Water Pollution | Harmful chemicals to natural water.
🗑
|
||||
| Contour Plowing | Ploughing following the contours of the land, to minimize the effects of erosion.
🗑
|
||||
| Windbreaks | Something that protects an area from the wind.
🗑
|
||||
| Crop Rotation | The successive planting of different crops on the same land to improve soil fertility and help control insects and diseases.
🗑
|
||||
| Fallow | Land plowed and left unseeded for a season or more uncultivated.
🗑
|
||||
| Conservation Plowing | A soil conservation method in which the dead stalks from the previous year's crop are left in the ground to hold the soil.
🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
Amanda Igwebuike
Popular Science sets