Beautiful Biomes
What is the Tundra?
The study of inter-relationships between organisms and their relation to their physical surroundings.
What is Ecology?
The granite at Stone Mountain is considered: living, dead, dormant, or non-living.
What is non-living?
What is the Biosphere?
Name the characteristic of life in which a parent organism passes down inherited traits to their offspring.
What is Heredity?
Trees found here experience all four seasons. Contains owls, songbirds, and raccoons.
What is Deciduous Forest?
The realm of life on Earth extending from the atmosphere to within the crust.
What is the Biosphere?
What is Dormant?
The second level of ecological organization (from broadest to most specific).
What is Ecosystems?
Name the characteristic of life in which an organism responds to changes around it.
What is Adapting to the environment?
Receives more than 250 cm of rain per year. Contains lemurs, geckos, and cacao trees.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
Large areas within the biosphere that have consistent environments and are home to the organisms suited to it.
What is a Biome?
What is non-living?
The third level of ecological organization (from broadest to most specific).
What is Communities?
Name the characteristic of life in which an organism changes as it gets older.
What is Growing and Developing?
Many varieties of grasses grow here, but trees do not.
What is Grasslands?
The ability of an organism to maintain stability by adjusting to conditions to help it survive.
What is Homeostasis?
The fourth level of ecological organization (from broadest to most specific).
What is Populations?
Name the characteristic of life in which an organism makes a new generation of its species.
What is Reproduction?
Contains lions, wildebeests, and baobab trees.
What is the Savanna?
A set of chemical reactions within an organism to maintain life. (Example: digesting a meal)
What is Metabolism?
The housefly that came in contact with the fly swat is considered: living, dead, dormant, or non-living.
What is dead?
The fifth level of ecological organization (from broadest to most specific).
What is Organisms?
Name the characteristic of life helps the organism's body systems remain constant despite changes to its environment.
What is Maintaining Stability (or Homeostasis)?