Units 1/2
What are some things that are seen as limiting factors?
Food, Water, Shelter.. etc
The headwaters of a river refers to ?
The upper side of the river
What is poaching
Poaching is ollegal hunting
Where are alpine tundras usually located
Top of high mountains
What is the difference between observations and Inferences
An Observation is made using the 5 senses while an inference is a guess or idea that is based on those observations
The flow of detritus that is constantly found on the ocean floor
Marine Snow
Elphants and Rhinos are both hunted for ?
Elephnts are hunted for their tusks and rhinos are hunted fo their horns
Artic Tundras usually have a very cold summer and cannot sustain life? T or F
F
List the 5 types of biomes
Forest , Grassland, Desert, Tundra, Aquatic
What are the two categories of forest
Old growth and Seconf Growth
The two ways seasons can be determined are by
Temperature and Precipitation
Why cant any form of precipitation sink into the ground
Permafrost
The 4 services provided by the ecosystem
Provisioning, Regulating, Cultural, and Supportive
The four layers of a forest are an emergent layer, canopy, understory and ?
Forest Floor
What do the leaves in the deserts have to help them retain water
Waxy coating
The higher the biodiversity is
The healthier the environment
Define Biotic and Abiotic Factors
Biotic factors are defined as living things and Abiotic factors are nonliving things
Salinity is the amount of salt in the water? T or F
T
Grazers are described as animals that eat what . list some examples of a grazer
Mainly grass (bison, elK, deer)
What is biodiversity
The variety of life in the world or ecosystem