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40 Cards in this Set
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You've seen me, I'm green. What I absorb in is clean. Its bright, it gives us light, although it's not ours at night.
What am I and how do I feed? |
Plants use photosynthesis to feed.
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I require things you need to live. I give you the circle, that's why I exist. The 3 spheres revolve around me. I let animals and plants roam free.
What am I? |
Biosphere
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Level up, level down. I got four places to go. I'm not hungry at the bottom and carry on the flow.
What am I? |
Trophic Levels
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There's so much I can take. Plants, animals, life and you. If you exceed the space I give, you can't possibly live and be true.
What am I? |
Carrying Capacity
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I'm the densest layer that surrounds you. I touch the earth travelling free, interacting with many species. Mother Nature has nothing on me, because the weather takes place in my territory!
What am I? |
Troposphere
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You can't escape me, because I'll find you. Fear me, because I won't hesitate to devour you. The home you call safe, is the land I will invade.
Who am I? |
Predator
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I'm seen as food from the eyes of another. I may be vulnerable to who wishes to consume me but I remain at ease, because the circle of life is pleased by me. I have fulfilled the role that fate had given me.
Who am I? |
Prey
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Roses are red, violets are blue. I'm the pest you must get rid of because I contaminated you.
What am I? |
Pesticide
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We can fit like a jigsaw puzzle to form planet earth. Our big happy family is made up with no more than four. We come in layers, being dry or wet. We blend together effortless. Without us, trying to maintain life is pointless.
What am I? |
Geosphere
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Nutrients are what I hold. I grow plants and may have gold. I'm always there, night through day. Covering the earth, every single day.
What am I? |
Lithosphere
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I'm in the air, I'm in the ground. My appearance can deceive you as it can take the form of a solid, gas or liquid. My body floats free providing you the key to breath.
What am I? |
Hydrosphere
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I once ran wild and free, until population got the best of me. Why this came to be, is what confuses me. Was it due to the over hunting made from greed? Or did the climate change have it in for me? Habitat destruction may be another possibility. But one thing's for certain, extinction is a stage I do not want to be.
What am I? |
Endangered Animal
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After death strikes a living organism. It's my job to recycle the dead tissue and form nutrients for the soil.
What am I? |
Decomposer
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I'm not too picky on what I eat. My appetite is satisfied pretty easily. Plants or meat, it doesn't matter to me. I just want something to fill my tummy.
What am I? |
Omnivore
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I have a very specific role to play. It involves the suns UV rays. My job is a great delight. All I have to do is absorb and scatter sunlight.
What am I? |
Stratosphere
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My job is to shield the planet I love. Protect it from the meteoroids that are up above. I act as a transition layer between the two unknown. Providing you protection is all I've known.
What am I? |
Mesosphere
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The food I eat is unique; it produces its own food to eat. The colour of it is usually green, and it helps fill my digestion machine.
What am I? |
Herbivore
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The food I eat tries to run and flea, it seems tasty to me because it is made up of all meat. A life for a life doesn't matter to me, as long as it satiates this hunger for me.
What am I? |
Carnivore
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I fly free as the wind carries me. I have many specialties that are fulfilled through different parts of me. Gases are what compose me, thank nitrogen and oxygen please!
What am I? |
Atmosphere
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I am a factor that proves life exists. I can be a tiny rabbit, or a very long list.
What am I? |
Biotic Factor
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Just like humans, my health can be determined too. But certainly not the same way as you do. Look at the climate or take a peek at my altitude. My soil and richness is determined by you.
What am I? |
Earth's Health
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I exceed the limits that were meant to be. Ecosystems wish to avoid me. I grow some more every day. Spreading havoc along the way.
What am I? |
Overpopulation
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I come in different ways. Build up over time or launch right away. I can sneak up or just surprise you any day. My creation can be man-made or Earth's pain.
What am I? |
Destruction of Land
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I’m not living but I roam free. Living organisms depend on me. I come with physical and chemical properties. You’d easily recognize me.
What am I? |
Abiotic Factor
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I’m a method used by many. My job is to get rid of the enemy. I can’t deny that the predators and infections do the dirty work. In my defence, at least it actually works.
What am I? |
Biological Control
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My plan revolves around time. If plot out well, my strategy may work. My method is to help my friends avoid the peak of the irritation.
What am I? |
Altered Timing
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Love can be either enchanting or deadly. I’m a player. Many are allured by me as my sent travels. I’m used as bait to confuse the mating ones.
What am I? |
Baiting Pest
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Change it up! Move around! Alter it as I go. Never let the enemy locate and establish where you are, that’s how I role. That’s my secret now let’s go!
What am I? |
Crop Rotation and Mixed Planting
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I’m considered an annoyance, that’s how I get my name. Irritating, that’s how I remain.
What am I? |
Pest
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I take more then I need. Over-harvesting is one of my bad deeds. Renewable resources come to diminishing returns thanks to me. Leading to destruction of resources is my plan to be.
What am I? |
Over-exploitation
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I search for the ground not yet evolved. When found, I develop myself. I advance you to at the state you never were. Hoping to spread all over the world.
What am I? |
Urban Sprawling
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I re-establish what needs to be. I’m the first stage to recovery. Ecosystems conditions remain constant thanks to me.
What am I? |
Succession
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Constant conditions over time is where I like to be. Aboitic & biotic features remain stable throughout me. When extreme disturbance occurs, I call on succession to be my friend in need.
What am I? |
Equilibrium
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I’m a harmful contaminant the environment seeks to dodge. Smog is another term for me when I’m in the city to lodge. I kill the ozone layer bit by bit. You’re the reason why I stay so fit.
What am I? |
Pollution
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I’m inorganic, yet I live in the environment. I slip my way into your body and build up day by day. Best part of it all, you won’t see it coming anyway.
What am I? |
Bioaccumulation
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My friend begins the process that leads me to the role I play. Unlike it, I can bring it to the next level that it never did. I travel my way high building up as I go. I’m known for going with the flow.
What am I? |
Bioamplification
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My ring begins with an element fond in the environment. With the help of Mother Nature, I’m released by a certain mineral without much annoyance. I’m absorbed by the ones that swim into the deadliest predators trap. My final stage ends off by decomposing bacteria returning it back to where it all began.
What am I? |
Phosphorous Cycle
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I’m essential to every living thing there is. My main allies exist more commonly in a healthy and sustainable environment. My family runs long but they’re four that you must know.
What am I and name the four? |
Nutrients: water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus
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Your life weakens me and yet I climb my way up, decreasing as I go. I can be passed on again and again as life goes.
What am I? |
Loss of energy
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I can be ancient but appear new to the eye. It’s like I have super powers, because your eyes can see me visible or invisible. My appearance can be altered though the process I go. It’s like I’m on a continuous loop wherever I go.
What am I? |
Water Cycle
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