Tundra/Desert
Forests
Water Cycle
Atmosphere
Potpourri
100
What is the layer of ground that is permanently frozen all year?
Permafrost
100
What shape are the leaves in the deciduous forests?
Flat and thin
100
The stage of the water cycle where liquid water turns to gas
Evaporation
100
What is the transfer of energy through space
Radiation
100
Why are there no trees in the tundra?
The permafrost prevents roots from growing
200
What is the climate of the Desert?
hot and little precipitation
200
Most life exists where in the rainforest?
The upper canopy
200
what way does water vapor enter the atmosphere as gas?
evaporation
200
What gas makes up the majority of the atmosphere
Nitrogen
200
Most animals are ______________ in the desert, since the day is too hot to do anything.
Nocturnal
300
What flora is missing from the Tundra?
Trees
300
In what type of forest do the trees have needles for leaves?
Coniferous forest/Boreal
300
What three ways can water fall to the Earth?
Rain, hail and snow
300
What percentage of the atmosphere is oxygen?
21%
300
What is it called when the leaves fall off tree and the tree stops growing growing in the winter?
The tree is dormant
400
How are the Tundra and Desert alike?
They both receive very little rainfall/No tall trees
400
How much sunlight reaches the forest floor in the tropical rainforest?
About 1%
400
What is it called when water gas turn back into tiny liquid water droplets in clouds?
Condesation
400
Transfer of energy from land and water to air by direct contact
Conduction
400
Air above the __________ is heated more than any other place on Earth.
The Equator
500
What adaptation do hares make in the winter to survive in the Tundra?
Their fur turns white
500
Over half of all living things on Earth live in the _________
Tropical Rainforest
500
What heats up and cools faster, water or land?
land
500
Layer of the atmosphere that blocks ultraviolet radiation.
Stratosphere
500
The only substance to exist as a gas, liquid and solid in the atmosphere is _________
Water
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