Biomes
The coast or coastal area.
What is the part of the land near the sea?
A specific event--like a rainstorm or a hot day--that happens over a few ours, days or weeks.
What is weather?
The process of extracting (removing) useful materials from the ear, such as coal, gold or iron.
What is mining?
A species that can only survive in the certain habitats it has already adapted to.
What is specialist?
Organisms with a hard, jointed exoskeleton and paired, jointed legs.
What is an arthropod?
An area where rivers meet and join.
What is a delta?
A rise in the annual temperature of the Earth's climate.
What is Global Warming?
Process of harvesting trees, sawing them into appropriate lengths and transporting them to a sawmill.
What is logging?
A species originally from somewhere else, but now resides in California.
What is non-native?
An organism that can produce its own food.
What is a autotroph?
A geographical area of land with low precipitation, poor soil and adapted flora and fauna.
What is a desert?
When land that is usually dry is submerged by an overflow of water.
What is flooding?
Power obtained by harnessing energy of the sun's rays; a renewable energy source
What is solar energy?
The first species to inhabit a previously destroyed site.
What is pioneer species?
Organisms that break down dead organisms into soil.
What are decomposers?
The calm, marshy bays where rivers flow into the sea.
What is a estuary?
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall leading to a shortage of water.
What is a drought?
is the act of maintaining resources in a way that they are able to renew overtime or continue existing without significant impacts.
What is sustainable?
A species that plays a critical role in an ecosystem.
What is keystone species?
Individual organisms of the same species living closely together for the benefit of all.
What is a colony?
A rare seasonal wetland habitat occurring on grassland, where an impenetrable layer of soil ponds rainwater in winter and spring.
What is a vernal pool?
Any significant change or pattern of change in the measures of Earth's climate. Climate includes temperature, precipitation, wind patterns...etc.
What is Climate Change?
Biological or biodegradable waste that decomposes over time.
What is green waste?
A species of plant or animal in immediate danger of extinction.
What is endangered animal?
A simple organism that is neither a plant or animal.
What is fungus?