Vocabulary
Climate Zones
Characteristics
Vocabulary 2
Miscellaneous
100
All the individuals of the same kind in the same ecosystem.
What is population?
100
Closest to the equator
What is tropical rain forest?
100
The leaves in the deciduous forest change color and _____________ in the autumn.
What is fall off?
100
Describes a living part of an ecosystem
What is biotic?
100
Air and water are examples of ____________ factors.
What is abiotic?
200
A great variety of living things
What is diversity?
200
Farthest from equator
What is tundra?
200
This very warm, wet climate zone has 4 layers.
What is tropical rain forest?
200
A community and its physical environment together
What is ecosystem?
200
Bio means _______________
What is life?
300
An environment that meets the needs of an organism.
What is habitat?
300
Climate zone where we live
What is deciduous forest?
300
The animals in this climate zone are usually nocturnal to avoid the heat of the day.
What is desert?
300
Describes a nonliving part of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
300
Which is an abiotic factor - mushroom or rainfall?
What is rainfall?
400
All the populations of organisms living together in an environment.
What is community?
400
Very dry
What is desert?
400
Because of over-farming and a drought this climate zone experienced the American Dust Bowl.
What is grassland?
400
One plant, one animal, one of anything
What is individual?
400
Which is a population - all plants of a rain forest or all the black beetles in a rotting log?
What is black beetles in a rotting log?
500
All the living and nonliving things that surround an organism.
What is environment?
500
Another name for coniferous forest climate zone
What is taiga?
500
Antarctica is considered to be this by some scientists because of the lack of precipitation.
What is desert?
500
The repeating patterns of temperature, amount of sunlight, and rainfall an area during a year.
What is climate?
500
Which climate zone is the South Pole?
What is tundra?
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