Ecosystems
The number of plants and animals in an ecosystem.
What is biodiversity?
Brown Tree Snakes took over Guam because of this.
What is they have no natural predators.
When animals don't eat for a long period of time.
What is fasting?
A layer of soil that is frozen all year round.
What is permafrost?
Three products that come from rainforests.
What are chocolate, cinnamon, medicine, shampoo, avocados, etc?
An example of a non-living thing that life depends on.
What are water, sun, or oxygen/CO2?
This kills many Brown Tree Snakes in Guam.
What are electric lines?
True or false, All deserts are hot?
What is false? Cold deserts exist because they get little precipitation.
An area with few plants.
What is barren?
This non-living thing MUST be in every ecosystem.
What is water?
A rainy and hot ecosystem with most of the land animals and plants.
What is the rainforest?
This is how Brown Tree Snakes got to Guam.
What is by airplane or boat?
When liquid water becomes gas through heat.
What is evaporation?
Each plant or animal plays an important role in the ecosystem that is known as this.
What is niche?
True of False all species in the tundra like arctic foxes, polar bears and birds stay all year.
What is false?
The ecosystem with 2/3 of all life on earth.
What is the sea/ocean?
True or False, the Brown Tree Snakes caused several bird species to go extinct in Guam.
What is True?
A common desert plant that has adapted to the dry climate by storing water and protecting itself with needles.
What is a cactus?
The removal of trees from forests in mass.
What is deforestation?
They almost became extinct on American Grasslands because of overhunting.
What are bison?
The ecosystem with a permafrost.
What is the tundra?
Any animal or plant in an environment it doesn't belong.
What is an invasive species?
Seeds in a desert tend to do this until they get water.
What is remain dormant?
A cold barren region with no trees and a layer of frozen soil.
What is the tundra?
This is the main difference between taiga and tundra which causes taigas to have forests.
What is rainfall/precipitation in the taigas.