Vocabulary
This is where an organism lives.
What is a habitat?
Sunlight, water, moist soil, and shady areas are these parts of a swamp environment.
What are abiotic parts?
These are the two ways natural changes happen in an environment.
What is quickly or slowly?
This change, caused by beavers, can be both bad and good - trees are cut down and running water is stopped, but new wetland environments are created.
What is a beaver dam?
This occurs when there is very little rainfall causing plants and animals to disappear in an environment.
What is a drought?
This is an organism's job or role in an environment.
What is a niche?
Ibis birds, mosquitoes, and blackberry bushes make up these parts of a swamp ecosystem.
What are biotic parts?
This is a quick change that occurs when rocks and mud quickly fall down a mountain and knock over trees and plants.
What is a mudslide?
This happens what power plants that create electricity put harmful chemicals into the air.
What is air pollution?
This type of anole is invasive and caused the native anole population in Florida to dye out (or go extinct).
What are brown anoles?
This words is all of the living things in an environment.
What is biotic?
This is very high in coral reefs because there are many different types of fish and plants that live there.
What is diversity?
This is a slow change that happens when ice that is kilometers thick covers a large part of the earth and the average temperature is very low.
What is an ice age?
Littering can cause harmful plastics and metals to do this.
What is ocean pollution?
Ecosystems in this part of the world tend to have a higher diversity due to warmer temperatures and higher rainfall.
What is closer to the equator?
The curly-leaf pondweed and spongy moth are these types of species in Minnesota.
What is an invasive species?
What is a narrow niche?
This is a quick change that can be both bad and good - hot lava can destroy plants and kill animals, but it can also create new land.
What is a volcanic eruption?
These are created by prairie dogs and can move the soil around to keep it healthy and provide homes to other animals.
What are burrows?
This makes up a "red tide" that releases harmful chemicals into the water that can hurt fish, plants, and humans.
What is red algae?
All of the oak trees in a backyard can be called this.
What is a population?
This is the interaction of species in a population to meet their needs for the same resources (for example, bison fighting for food during winter).
What is competition?
This is a slow change that causes mountains to change shape over time.
What is erosion?
This is when humans try to positively change the environment by planting trees, cleaning up pollution, and removing invasive species.
What is conservation?
This type of ant is invasive and destroyed populations of harvester ants when they competed for resources.
What are fire ants?