Very Vocab
Scientist stuff
Areas & things
Interdependence
Systems & Models
100

The living and nonliving things that interact in an area make up this.

What is an ecosystem?

100

The name of the scientist who visited the island to observe finches

Who is Charles Darwin?
100

2 living and 2 nonliving things in a FOREST ecosystem?

What are air, water, sunlight, etc

woodpeckers, deer, squirrels, maple trees, pine trees, ferns, etc

100

3 nonliving things in an ecosystem

What are air, water, and sunlight?

100

A good practice in making a model of the different parts of an ecosystem is to do this.

What is label the nonliving and living things?

200

Tiny plantlike organisms in ponds

What is algae?

200

The type of scientist who study ecosystems and teach other people about them

Who are ecologists?

200

2 living and 2 nonliving things in a POLAR ecosystem?

What are air, water, sunlight, etc

polar bears, penguins, seals, ice, ice berg, fish

200

The difference between an ecosystem with many more plants than an ecosystem with less

What are differences in temperature, sunlight, and soil?

200

This plant feature is found in the understory of a tropical rainforest because there is less sunlight there

What are especially large leaves?

300

The layer of the rainforest that is at the very top.

What is the emergent layer?

300

 3 things a scientist might do

What are ask questions, observe, conduct experiments, and/or draw/sketch/take notes on observations?

300

2 living and 2 nonliving things in a HOT DESERT ecosystem?

What are air, water, sunlight, etc

snakes, scorpions, cactus, desert wildflowers

300

These components of a coral reef ecosystem interact.

What are coral, sand, water, and all the organisms living there, because ecosystems are made up of all living and nonliving things inside them.

300

An ecosystem found in Michigan

What is a temperate forest?

400

This vocab word means the name of any living thing.

What is an organism?

400

Something that a scientist would not forget to do when constructing a model of an ecosystem

What is label the living and nonliving things?

400

2 living and 2 nonliving things in a OCEAN REEF ecosystem?

What is water, sunlight, rocks, etc

coral, shellfish, fish, octopus, etc

400

All animals that live in a pond ecosystem need this

What is air?

400

The temperature in a TEMPERATE FOREST does this during the spring and fall months

What is increase in the spring months and decrease in the fall months?

500

This means a mild climate or mild temperatures - not too hot or cold.

What is "temperate"?

500

One thing that a scientist may do before conducting an experiment?

What is observe & form questions/Research topics and similar experiments

500

2 living and 2 nonliving things in a TEMPERATE GRASSLAND ecosystem?

What are air, sunlight, water, etc

bison, antelope, prairie dogs, vultures, etc

500

The order of the four layers in a tropical rainforest from bottom to top

What is forest floor, understory, canopy, and emergent layer?

500
Bears and birds respond this way to the temperature patterns in a TEMPERATE FOREST

What is hibernate in the winter for bears and fly somewhere warm for birds?

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