Physical Characteristics
An environment that is flat with lots of grasses.
What is a grassland?
This ingredient makes for water that is NOT fresh.
What is salt?
An animal you might find in the Grasslands
What is (answer may vary) elephant, giraffe, prairie dog, fox, etc.?
A name for a body of saltwater.
What is the Ocean or the Sea?
A non-living thing used by animals to breath.
What is air?
This ecosystem is vast and home to seaweed and corals.
What is a saltwater ecosystem?
A freshwater body that is deeper than a pond.
What is a lake?
Not all animals eat grass on the grassland. Name an animal that eats meat and must hunt for prey.
What is (answers may vary) lion, cheetah, wolf, hyena, etc.
The name for the sandy land where saltwater waves crash.
What is the beach?
Rocks are living or non-living things found in freshwater, saltwater and grassland ecosystems.
What is non-living?
This ecosystem has been called a prairie.
What is a grassland?
A source for fresh water that accumulates in ponds, lakes and rivers.
What is precipitation or melted ice?
Animals in a grassland must make their homes here.
What is the ground?
These marine animals breath air from the saltwater with an organ called gills.
What are fish?
This non-living thing gives energy to plants which begins the food chain for all ecosystems.
What is the sun?
The bottom of these environments can be muddy, sandy or silty.
What is a freshwater environment?
For animals to survive they require freshwater for this purpose.
What is to drink it?
The land in grasslands is too dry to support many (bushes, trees or grasses).
What is trees?
The Earth is covered by 70%, 40% or 10% in a saltwater ecosystem.
What is 70%?
Beavers, deer, racoons, water fowl and fish are some of the living things found in this ecosystem.
What is a freshwater ecosystem?
This freshwater environment is a ribbon-like body of water that flows downhill from the force of gravity
What is a river?
A large body of water surrounded by land.
What is a lake?
Another name for a Grassland.
What is a prairie, pampa, steppe, or savanna?
This is another name for a saltwater wetland which is flooded and drained by tides.
What is a marsh?
Living things make their home in different sunlit zones of this ecosystem.
What is freshwater or saltwater ecosystem?