6.LS4.1 Biodiversity
These inherited features can increase an organism's chance of survival.
What are adaptations?
This is the process of removing trees, which can reduce transpiration and affect rainfall.
What is deforestation?
his biome is hot and dry, with very little rainfall and plants like cacti.
Question: What is the desert?
This wet, warm biome near the equator is known for its high biodiversity and thick plant life.
Question: What is the rainforest?
When an environment changes, this may happen to a species if it cannot adapt quickly enough.
What is extinction?
Paving roads and parking lots increases this kind of water movement, reducing groundwater recharge.
What is runoff?
In this biome, trees lose their leaves in the fall, and there are four seasons.
Question: What is the deciduous forest?
A biome with long, cold winters, evergreen trees, and animals like moose and wolves.
Question: What is the taiga?
Scientists can use this kind of information, such as data on beak size in finches, to support ideas about natural selection.
What is evidence from data or data analysis?
This kind of pollution can enter the water cycle from factories, farms, or cities.
Question: What is water pollution?
The amount of sunlight, temperature, and rainfall are examples of these non-living parts of a biome.
Question: What are abiotic factors?
This biome is full of grasses, few trees, and is home to animals like bison and prairie dogs.
Question: What are grasslands?
The variety of living organisms in a particular area or on Earth as a whole.
What is Biodiversity?
Building dams can change the natural flow of water and disrupt this part of the cycle.
Question: What is the flow of rivers or streams?
This cold, treeless biome has frozen ground called permafrost and animals like caribou and polar bears.
What is a tundra
In this water-based biome, abiotic factors like salinity and tides affect the types of organisms that can live there.
Question: What is the marine biome?
a group of living organisms that are similar to each other and can reproduce to have offspring that can also reproduce.
What is species?
Trash and plastic thrown on the ground can be carried by runoff into rivers and lakes, causing this problem.
What is water contamination?
These are the living parts of an ecosystem, like plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
Question: What are biotic factors?
A river or lake belongs to this biome, where temperature, flow speed, and oxygen levels affect life.
Question: What is the freshwater biome?