Category 1: Geography & Maps
There are 7 of these large landmasses on Earth, including Africa and Asia.
What are Continents?
This word describes the long-term average weather of a place (like "Hot and Dry"), not just today's weather.
What is Climate?
The two words that best describe the climate of a Tropical Rainforest.
What is Hot and Wet (or Stable)?
This single crop is the main reason forests in Borneo are being cut down.
What is Palm Oil?
We learned that natural disasters act as a "Reset Button" for nature. The scientific name for nature regrowing after a disaster is Ecological... what?
What is Succession?
This horizontal line at 0 degrees latitude divides the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
What is the Equator?
This is a large community of plants and animals adapted to live in a specific climate (e.g., Tundra, Desert).
What is a Biome?
The top layer of the rainforest where most of the animals live and where the sun hits.
What is the Canopy?
This term describes a farm where only ONE type of crop is grown, which is bad for biodiversity.
What is a Monoculture?
While they destroy coasts, these giant waves can actually help coral reefs by clearing away dead rubble.
What are Tsunamis?
This vertical line at 0 degrees longitude runs through Greenwich, England.
What is the Prime Meridian?
This term refers to the non-living parts of an ecosystem, such as wind, rain, and temperature.
What are Abiotic Factors?
These small creatures (like ants and fungi) are responsible for cleaning up dead leaves on the forest floor.
What are Recyclers (or Decomposers)?
We use this phrase to describe a palm oil plantation because it looks green from above, but supports almost no life.
What is a "Green Desert"?
Some trees, like the Giant Sequoia, actually need this disaster to melt the resin on their pinecones so they can release seeds.
What is Fire (or Wildfire)?
If you were rescuing a ship, you would need these two numbers (latitude and longitude) to find their exact position.
What are Coordinates (or Absolute Location)?
This term refers to the living parts of an ecosystem, such as animals, plants, and bacteria.
What are Biotic Factors?
Surprisingly, most of the nutrients in the jungle are NOT stored in the soil, but stored here.
What is inside the Living Plants (Biomass)?
Because they cannot walk on the ground, Orangutans become trapped in small islands of forest. This leads to this "E" word risk.
What is Extinction?
Earthquakes can destroy habitats, but they can also create new ones by blocking rivers to form these.
What are Lakes?
On a map, these lines run parallel to the Equator (horizontal), measuring North and South.
What are Latitude lines?
A special skill or body part (like white fur on a polar bear) that helps an animal survive in its environment.
What is Adaptation?
This specific bird clears a stage on the forest floor to perform a complex mating dance.
What is the Western Parotia?
This term refers to the valuable services nature provides us for free, like clean air, water, and pollination.
What is Natural Capital?
In our unit, we learned that consequences vary by scale. If the rainforest in Borneo is destroyed, it releases carbon. This affects the whole world by making this global problem worse.
What is Climate change?