Clouds
What type of clouds form high up in the
sky and are are wispy?
Cirrus
What do all living things need to survive?
energy or food
What are living things called?
organisms
What is the purpose of petals and sepal?
The petals make the flower look good to other organisms. The sepal protects the flower when it is forming.
Describe the continental shelf
around the edge of the earth's continents; begins below the water and slopes gradually away from the shore; where most of the living things are in the ocean
What type of clouds are smooth and sometimes block out sunlight?
Stratus
The arrows in a food web/chain show what?
How energy is passed from one living thing to another
What is the difference between vertebrates and invertebrates?
Vertebrates have a back bone, invertebrates don't
What is the stamen?
The stamen is the part of the plant where the pollen comes from.
Describe the continental slope
slopes steeply, drops down a lot, 200-4,000 meters
What type of clouds have fluffy and have flat bottoms?
Cumulus
How is a food web different from a food chain?
A food chain is usually one line of energy. A food web is made up of different food chains in the same community.
Why do scientists use classification keys?
to identify and classify living things
What is pollination?
when the pollen from one flower gets to the pistil of another flower of the same type.
What are some of the important features of the ocean floor? (5)
continental shelf, continental slope, continental rise, abyssal plain, ocean trench
What types of clouds are dark and bring stormy weather?
Cumulo-nimbus
What are producers?
living things that use the sun's energy to make food
What is the difference between vascular and nonvasuclar plants?
Vascular have tubes; non vascular don't have tubes
What are seeds and embryos?
A seed is a container to carry the plant embryo from one place to another. Seeds are the part of a plant that can develop into a fruit.
Describe the abyssal plain
called the true ocean floor, deep and flat, built by layers of silt sediment
What clouds are the lowest elevation?
stratus
living things that eat dead plants and animals and return the nutrients to the soil
Why are classification keys are important?
to help name things; figure out what things are
Describe the pistil
The top of flower’s pistil is sticky. Pollen can stick to the pistil so the plant can reproduce.
Describe the ocean trench.
deep cuts in the ocean floor, when continental plates collide and form a trench