Ecosystems
Tundra
What is a dry, cold ecosystem?
Barometer
What is the tool that is used to measure air pressure?
Temperate
Rain Gauge
Salinity
What is the measure of dissolved salt in a body of water?
Forest Floor
What is the very bottom of a rainforest called?
Five Categories
How do you measure the strength of a hurricane?
Arid
Sun dial
What can you use to tell time without electricity?
Wetland
What is the term to describe lands that are wet all or part of the year?
Ecology
What is the study of the environment?
Earthquake
What is the natural phenomenon that occurs when tectonic plates rub against each other?
Subtropical
What is the area classified between tropical and temperate, bordering on a tropical area?
Decomposer
What is an organism, usually a bacterium or fungus, that breaks down the cells of dead plants and animals into simpler substances?
Mangroves
What term is used to describe tropical trees that grow along flooded coastal banks?
Brackish
What is the term that describes a mixture of fresh and salt waters?
Tropical Storm
What is a storm that has rotation and winds 39mph and under?
Subhumid
What is an area characterized by not having a lot of humidity or moisture in the air?
Latitude
What is the angular distance north or south from the equator of a point on the earth's surface, measured on the meridian of the point?
Lake stratification
What is the process when lakes form separate and distinct thermal layers during warm weather?
Upland
What is a dry area adjacent to a wetland called?
Anenometer
What is a device that can measure wind speed?
Water Cycle
What is the cyclical process of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
Producers
What are organisms that make their own food and get energy from the Sun?
Grasslands
What is an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, characteristic of subhumid and semiarid climates?