Biomes
The treeless coldest biome where the ground is usually frozen (permafrost) for a long period of time.
What is the Tundra?
Organism get this as they eat. It flows throughout the food chain.
What is energy?
The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.
What is weather?
A type of trait you are born with.
What is a inherited?
The ocean that runs along the eastern shore of North Carolina.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
A biome that grows near the equator; receive large amounts of rain and have dense growths of tall, leafy trees; warm and rainy year-round.
What is the tropical rainforest?
An organism that only eats producers.
What is an herbivore?
An imaginary line around the middle of the Earth forming a circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles
What is the equator?
The strong gene or the gene that takes over.
What is dominant?
A feather cloud high in the sky made of ice crystals. It bring fair weather.
What is a cirrus cloud?
A biome in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean.
What is an estuary?
A community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains.
What is a food web?
The layer of the atmosphere where all weather occurs?
What is the troposphere?
The molecule that carries all the information about how a living thing will look and function.
What is DNA?
A characteristic that describes the way somethings LOOKS.
What is a physical trait?
Another word for land biomes.
What is terrestrial?
The process that plants (producers) use, sun convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and high-energy carbohydrates such as sugars and starches.
What is photosynthesis?
The movement of air from land to sea at night, created when cooler, denser air from the land forces up warmer air over the sea
What is land breeze?
A behavior you are born with. (hibernation, crying, migration)
What is instinct?
A wetland with tall trees.
What is a swamp?
When the soil is rich with nutrients allowing new plants to grow.
What is fertile?
Top predators are also called apex predators. They eat other consumers.
What is the tertiary consumer?
The winds that give the United States most of its weather, blow from west to east.
What are prevailing westerlies?
a trait that a living thing is NOT born with, a trait that is learned from experience or environment (ex. reading a book, riding a bike, liking Miley Cyrus)
What is an acquired trait?
Another word for the types of water in an estuary.
What is brackish?