Ecosystems
This cold watery ecosystem lies to the north of all others.
What is the Arctic or Arctic Ocean ecosystem?
Mushrooms are the typical example of this food web component.
What is a decomposer?
One is the word for animals that hunt, the other is the word for animals that are hunted.
What is predator and prey?
This abiotic factor tends to increase near the equator, and decrease near the poles.
What is temperature?
The name of this large mammal, common to Canada, is derived from the Algonquian language and means "bark stripper" or "eater of twigs".
What is a Moose?
This type of ecosystem is known for its low levels of precipitation, and while often hot, it can in fact be quite cold.
What is a desert ecosystem?
This segment of a food web is the only one that makes its own food using energy taken from the sun.
What are producers?
This type of animal, which includes humans, eats both meat and plants.
What is an omnivore?
During the Great Depression, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, and some other prairie states earned the nickname "Dust Bowl" because of this type of storm destroying the farmland there.
What is a Dust Storm?
Known as an enforcer, he is the Toronto Maple Leafs' all-time leader in penalty minutes. He played for the Leafs, the Jets, and the Rangers over his 16 year NHL career.
Who is Tie Domi?
This ecosystem is known for its grasslands and once numerous bison herds.
What is the Great Plains/Prairie ecosystem?
Eagles, wolves, and sharks are examples of this food web component, they eat animals that eat animals.
What is a tertiary consumer?
One is an animal that eats only meat, the other is an animal that eats only plants.
What is a carnivore and a herbivore?
This prominent feature of the North American landscape is what protects coastal British Columbia from the cold Arctic winds that make Edmonton, Calgary, and other prairie cities so cold.
What are the Rocky Mountains?
This Canadian city was once known as the Red River Colony, from where Louis Riel launched a Métis resistance to the Federal Government's takeover during westward expansion.
What is Winnipeg?
The prominent abiotic features of this ecosystem are its productive mineral-rich soils, saturated with standing water.
What is a swamp ecosystem?
Nothing hunts these creatures, who sit atop even the longest food chains.
What is an apex predator.
The process by which plants make their own food, and the biological compound that gives plants their green color.
What is photosynthesis and chlorophyll.
This massive hydrological feature flows from Minnesota to New Orleans, and is surrounded by the largest continuous stretch of farmable land in the world.
What is the Mississippi River?
This Canadian politician was the first leader of the NDP and is known for pioneering the first Universal Healthcare system on the continent when he was premier of Saskatchewan.
Who is Tommy Douglas?
This ecosystem includes the largest living structures on the planet, visible from space, yet very susceptible to pollution and climate change.
What is a coral reef?
This element of the food web is connected to every other one.
What is a decomposer?
This foundation of the ocean's food web includes two types; one that makes it own food from the sun's energy, and one that eats other things.
What are plankton? (Phytoplankton and Zooplankton).
It's cycle is one of the most important limits on most ecosystems' growth, and a lack of it caused some plants to evolve carnivorous traits.
What is Nitrogen?
Traditionally eaten in Newfoundland and other maritime provinces, this dinner is prepared by boiling corned beef, cabbage, and potatoes. Pease pudding and figgy duff are bagged and boiled in the rich broth.
What is a Jiggs Dinner?