Forests
Deserts and Tundras
Energy Pyramids
Adaptations
Random Knowledge
100

This type of forest is most common at the equator.

What is a rain forest?

100

This is the main type of plant you can find in the desert, known for its thorns and ability to retain water.

What are cacti?

100

This is the type of organism located in the lowest level of an energy pyramid.

What is a producer?

100

This is the type of adaptation a giraffe has to allow it to eat high-up leaves.

What is a long neck?

100

This is the color with shades called citron, saffron, and mustard.

What is yellow?

200

This type of forest is also known as "deciduous," since its trees lose their leaves in the fall.

What are temperate forests?

200

This is the word for the layer of frozen ground found in a tundra.

What is permafrost?

200

This is the type of organism that is usually at the top of the energy pyramid.

What is a tertiary consumer?

200

This is the type of adaptation that a beaver has that allows it to break down trees.

What are sharp, strong teeth?

200

This is the year that the United States of America declared independence from Great Britain.

What is 1776?

300

This type of forest is known in some places as a "boreal" forest.

What is a coniferous/taiga forest?

300

This is the US state with the largest amount of tundra in its boundaries.

What is Alaska?

300

This is the type of organism that eats producers. 

What are primary consumers? (or herbivores)

300

This is the adaptation many fish have that allow them to breathe underwater.

What are gills?

300

A "kick" drum refers to this kind of drum, usually played with the legs in a drum kit.

What is the bass drum?

400

This is the word for the "roof" of a forest, most commonly used when referring to the cover of trees in tropical jungles. 

What is a canopy?

400

These flying decomposers are really easy to find scavenging for a meal in the hot climates of the desert.

What are vultures?

400

Since producers make their own food, all of the energy in the energy pyramid first comes from this.

What is the sun?

400

This is the adaptation many monkeys and all humans have that allow for a strong grip on branches or other items. The answer is NOT "hands."

What are opposable thumbs?

400

Recent photographic evidence has shown that this planet is not as dark as we thought and is actually a much lighter shade of blue, like Uranus. 

What is Neptune?

500

This is the only continent with no forests.

What is Antarctica?

500
Name one of the deserts found in the United States.

Options: Great Basin Desert, Mojave Desert, Chihuahuan Desert, and Sonoran Desert.

500

This is the area of the energy pyramid that is not part of the pyramid but shows where animals like soil bacteria and vultures are.

What are decomposers?

500

This is the type of adaptation that many birds have that allow them to eat different hard, shelled foods like nuts and seeds.

What are beak shapes?

500
Name one of the songs that Mr. Tuckey played to represent any of the regions in our Fifty States unit.

Many options: New York, New York (Frank Sinatra), Take Me Home Country Roads (John Denver), Come On Feel the Illinoise! (Sufjan Stevens), Amarillo by Morning (George Strait), Surfin U.S.A. (The Beach Boys), and Over the Rainbow (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole)

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