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Energy Flow
Cycles of Matter
Biogeography
Biomes
Potpourri
100
The three energy roles are producer, decomposer, and this.
What is a consumer?
100
These make up the water cycle.
What are evaporation, condensation, and precipitation?
100
The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time is this.
What is climate?
100
These are the six biomes.
What are the rainforest, desert, grassland, deciduous forest, boreal forest, and tundra?
100
This existed 225 million years ago.
What is Pangaea?
200
The movement of energy through an ecosystem can be shown through these.
What are food chains and food webs?
200
This is an organism that can make its own food.
What is a producer?
200
This is when blocks of solid rock within the Earth shift.
What is continental drift?
200
The trees that form a leafy roof.
What is a canopy?
200
The gila monster and the saguaro cactus are organisms that would be found in this biome.
What is the desert?
300
The most energy is available at this level of the energy pyramid.
What is the producer level?
300
After a tree releases this into the air, it goes into the air for animals to breathe.
What is oxygen?
300
Dispersal can be caused by these.
What are wind, water, or living things?
300
This is an area that receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year.
What is a desert?
300
The Russian word for boreal forest.
What is Taiga?
400
Consumers are classified by this.
What is what they eat?
400
Producers take in this from the air during photosynthesis.
What is carbon dioxide gas?
400
These are limits to dispersal.
What are physical barriers, competition, and climate?
400
This biome is home to animals like caribou, foxes, wolves, and Arctic hares.
What is the tundra?
400
Trees that loose their leaves in the winter.
What are deciduous trees?
500
It gets its name from the shape of a diagram.
What is an energy pyramid?
500
The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen is called this.
What is nitrogen fixation?
500
One factor that has affected how species are distributed is this.
What is the motion of the Earth's continents?
500
It is mostly this in an area that determines its biome.
What is climate?
500
The differences between the temperate and tropical rain forests are these.
What are temperature, location, and organisms?