Biomes
A biome is a community of plants and animals that have _______ to life in a certain climate.
What is adapted?
The Earth's _________ contains all the planets living things, like plants and animals.
What is the biosphere?
True or false: Some organisms can look alike and not be the same species.
What is true?
The four layers of the Earth are:
What is the crust, the mantle, the outer core, and the inner core?
"Abiotic" means:
What is non-living?
________ are aquatic biomes that contain little or no salt.
What are freshwater biomes?
The study of how living things interact with each other and their environment.
What is ecology?
Herbivores are a type of consumer that eat ________.
What are plants and products of plants (like fruits)?
The _______ is Earth's thickest layer.
What is the mantle?
The three main zones of a marine biome are:
What is the sunlight zone, the twilight zone, and the midnight zone?
What are the three zones of a freshwater biome?
What is the littoral zone, the open-water zone, and the deep-water zone?
The atmosphere helps protect the Earth from the Sun's _____________ and helps to regulate __________.
What is radiation? What is temperature?
Plants produce _______ as a result of photosynthesis.
What is oxygen?
The two elements that make up the inner core and the outer core are _______ and _________.
What is nickel and iron?
Sea turtles can mainly be found in this zone of marine biomes.
What is the sunlight zone?
______% of life in the oceans live in the sunlight zone of marine biomes.
What is 90%?
The 3 parts of Earth's biosphere are:
What is the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, and the atmosphere?
How is a sparrow's color a helpful adaptation?
What is the sparrow's color helps it blend in to its habitat and avoid being eaten by predators?
The ____________ __________ is the deepest known place on Earth, it is found in the ocean, and is over 7 miles deep.
What is the Mariana Trench?
The marine life living in these zones have adapted to their environment by developing large eyes and/or bioluminescence.
What are the twilight zone and the midnight zone?
Vampire squids can be found in this zone of marine biomes.
What is the midnight zone?
The 3 life-giving gases that are found in Earth's atmosphere are:
What is oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide?
Describe at least 4 populations you could find in a lake community.
(any example that contains 4 different populations of living things)
The deepest place on Earth, which can be found in the ocean, is located in the _______ Ocean.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
Which biome can be categorized by extreme temperatures, little rainfall, with rocky and sandy soil?
What is a desert?