Savanna
This savanna animal can run up to 80 miles per hour!
What is a cheetah?
This black and white animal lives in the arctic tundra and has many species like king, emperor, chinstrap and gentoo.
What is a penguin?
This bird flies around and eats dead animals, keeping the desert sands clean.
What is a vulture?
These very large ocean mammals filter water out of their mouths using special teeth called baleen.
What are whales?
This rainforest animal lives in trees and moves extremely slow so that predators don't notice them.
What is the sloth?
Savannas only have two seasons, wet and ___.
What is dry?
Many animals that live in the tundra have adapted to have their coats turn into this color.
What is white?
What is water?
If ponds and rivers are made of fresh water, then oceans and seas are made of this.
What is salt water?
The savanna is a type of this common biome.
What is the grasslands?
Because of the tundras are so close to the north and south poles, this season is 8 months long instead of 3.
What is winter?
What is nocturnal?
This percentage of earth's surface is ocean.
A. 25%
B. 50%
C. 70%
What is 70%?
During the day, only 2% of this actually reaches the forest floor.
What is sunlight?
Because the savanna is so open, animals must travel together in these in order to stay safe.
What is a herd?
The two types of tundras are alpine and ___.
What is the arctic (tundra)?
The desert winds will move sand around and can make these large wave shaped hills called this.
What are (sand) dunes?
Sea turtles do this to the coral reefs in order to keep them from overpopulating and growing too big.
What is eating?
There are two types of rainforests: temperate and ________.
What are tropical (rainforests)?
You can find the savanna biome on all continents except for:
A. North America
B. South America
C. Africa
D. Australia
What is North America?
A layer of ice a few feet below the tundra surface that prevents most plants from growing here.
What is permafrost?
Sometimes strong winds whip up small particles in the desert and create these.
Hint: D___ S____
What is a dust storm?
The lowest point in the ocean at about 36,000 feet below sea level is given this special name.
What is the Marianas trench?
From highest to lowest, the layers of the rainforest are the Emergent, the C_____, Understory and Forest Floor.
What is the canopy?