Plants & Trees
The food-making process in green plants
What is photosynthesis?
An animal with a backbone
What is a vertebrate?
The natural home of an animal or plant
What is habitat?
To tunnel into the ground
What is burrow?
The underwater land along the coast of a continent
What is the continental shelf?
The green matter in plants that traps sunlight energy
What is chlorophyll?
An animal without a backbone
What is an invertebrate?
A predator at the top of a food chain with no natural enemies
What is an apex predator?
A large, flat, open area of grasses
What is grassland?
The deepest places on the ocean floor
What are trenches?
The living part of a seed that becomes a new plant
What is an embryo?
A body temperature that changes with the environment
What is cold-blooded?
Permanently frozen subsoil
What is permafrost?
Being active during the night
What is nocturnal?
The dark ocean depth after the twilight zone
What is the midnight zone?
The colorful part of many flowers that attracts pollinators
What is the petal?
Four insect growth stages: egg, larva, pupa, adult
What is complete metamorphosis?
A triangular landform at the mouth of a river
What is a delta?
A fertile place in the desert with water
What is oasis?
The deepest and darkest zone of the ocean
What is the abyss?
A tree that loses its leaves and is bare for part of the year
What is a deciduous tree?
The ability to blend in with surroundings
What is camouflage?
The ocean zone with the most sunlight and photosynthesis
What is the sunlight zone?
Movement from one place to another with the seasons
What is migration?
Land covered with water for at least part of the year
What are wetlands?