Adaptations
Tigers have sharp teeth to tear apart food.
What is structural adaptation?
evaporation, transpiration, condensation, runoff, precipitation are all parts
What is the water cycle?
living things
What is biotic?
all the living and nonliving things in the environment
What is an ecosystem?
where organisms live
What is habitat?
Skunks hibernate in the winter.
What is behavioral adaptation?
nitrogen fixing bacteria in roots
What is the nitrogen cycle?
a tick on a deer (one helped, one harmed)
What is parasitism?
large geographic areas with similar plants, animals, and climate
What is a biome?
the job or role of an organism
What is niche?
waxy coating on plants to conserve water
What is structural adaptation?
animals and humans breathing out CO2
What is the carbon cycle?
clownfish and anemone (both benefit)
What is mutualism?
this biome has extremely cold winters
What is the tundra?
Panda lives in the forest.
What is habitat?
Caribou will migrate south in the winter to find food.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
largest gas in the Earth's atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
sharks and remoras (one benefits and the other not helped or harmed)
What is commensalism?
biome that gets large amounts of rainfall
What is the rainforest?
Blue whale eats krill.
What is the niche?
Tundra plants are low to the ground and have _______ root systems due to permafrost (permanently frozen ground).
What is shallow?
plants take in this gas from the atmosphere
What is carbon dioxide?
if predator population increases, the population of prey
What is decreases?
filled with evergreens and snowy winters
What is the Taiga?
organisms of different species living together
What is a community?