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Adaptations I
Class starters
100
This is a are large geographic areas that have similar climates, plants, and animals
What is a biome?
100
This is the usual weather and seasons of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
Which biome is hot in the day and cold at night
What is desert?
100
This is any characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
100
This adaptation helps to prevent water loss in conifers.
What is cuticle coating on leaves?
200
This is the part of the Earth that supports all life
What is biosphere?
200
These animals are awake at night and sleep during the day.
What is nocturnal?
200
This biome is extremely cold and dry small amount of precipitation each year as rain or snow.
What is tundra?
200
This is a type of adaptations that depends on body size, shape, color, etc. (phenotypes)
What is a Structural adaptation?
200
This structure increases a root’s surface area for allowing it to take in more water.
What is root hairs?
300
This biome has dry environments that generally receive less than 10 in. of rainfall each year
What is a desert?
300
This biome has long cold, winters and short, cool summers. Found just south of the tundra
What is Taiga?
300
This type of adaptation is the way an organism acts in its environment.
What is behavioral adaptation?
300
This is what happens when the average annual rainfall in a forest decreases over many years.
What is more large leaves (extensive) will grow?
400
This biome has near the equator, warm temperatures (around 25˚C or 77˚F) and abundant rainfall (more than 60 in. each year
What is a tropical rainforest?
400
These trees are evergreens like fir, cedar, and spruce.
What is a conifer?
400
This biome has four seasons with a with a large temperature variation over the year.
What is temperate deciduous forest?
400
This type of adaptation is how something is built/what it looks like.
What is structure?
400
These nutrients do get absorbed from organic materials in their environment?
What is fungi?
500
This biome is cool and gets a lot of precipitation (over 60 in. every year). The trees are conifers/evergreens like fir, cedar, and spruce.
What is temperate rainforest?
500
This biome gets a lot of rain and has pine trees.
What is temperate rain forest?
500
This biome has dry weather with all four seasons with few trees.
What is grassland?
500
This is the way something is used/what it does.
What is function?
500
This is how science contributes to progress in science. Hint: this question is from 1g
What is responding to criticism of a theory?