The Desert
What is the desert climate like?
What is dry or often hot?
How does the kangaroo rat get its water?
What is from the moisture found in seeds?
Where can you find rainforests?
What is in tropical climates?
How many months of summer does the Arctic have?
What is six months?
A stream is a small, traveling body of _____ .
What is freshwater?
How do plants live in the desert?
God gave them a special design to be able to survive in the desert.
How does the jackrabbit get its water?
What is by licking the dew from plants?
What grows on the forest floor?
What is fungi (mushrooms) and other decomposers?
What is different about arctic summers?
It is always daylight; the subsoil is always frozen
When a stream flows with the powerful force of rushing water, its _____ is strong.
What is current?
What is an amphibian of the desert?
What is a desert toad?
How does the desert tortoise get its water?
The desert tortoise get its water by eating cactus and other plants that store water.
Why do flowers in the understory need bright colours?
Shat is to attract pollinators in the darkness?
What is different about arctic winters?
It is always dark.
Some insects live on top of the water, or ____ film.
What is surface?
Name a desert reptile.
What is a Gila monster?
What makes an animal nocturnal?
It is active at night instead of during the day.
What are the layers of the rainforest?
What are the forest floor, understory, canopy and emergent?
Why do some arctic animals molt when summer comes?
Their winter coats are very thick.
Stream plants _____ the water, making it clean.
What is filter?
Where do desert animals find shelter?
They find them in underground burrows, crevices between rocks or cactus plants.
Name a decomposer in a desert food chain.
What is a fly?
Why do poison dart frogs and other venomous animals sometimes have bright colouring?
What is as a warning?
What layer of fat keeps arctic sea mammals warm?
What is blubber?
Rocks and fallen branches provide _____ for some stream animals.
What is shelter?