Land Biome Names
What is a Savanna?
What is a savanna?
A wetland that has trees and is often found in low-lying areas.
What is a marsh?
This forms the base of the ocean's food chain.
What is plankton?
An important factor in marine ecosystems is the: amount of plankton, water depth, kinds of algae, or size of animals.
What is water depth?
Has the greatest diversity of plants and animals.
What is a rainforest?
What is a Temperate Deciduous Forest?
What is a marsh?
Made of small skeletons of small animals
What is a Coral Reef?
This is the process through which plankton get food.
What is photosynthesis?
Has many grasses and few trees.
What is a temperate grassland?
A coastal biome that has woody shrubs and experiences a summer and winter.
What is a chaparral?
A major abiotic factor that affects freshwater ecosystems
What is how quickly water moves?
What is an estuary?
Name the three zones of a lake.
What are the littoral zone, the deep-water zone, the open-water zone?
Has trees that produce seeds in cones.
What is the taiga (coniferous forest)?
The name of where trees no longer grow due to the elevation.
What is a tree line?
This will happen as sediment and decaying organisms build up in a pond.
The pond may become a forest?
What is the polar ice?
The four zones of the ocean.
What are neritic zone, intertidal zone, open ocean zone and benthic zone?
Has permafrost and found on the tops of mountains.
What is Alpine Tundra?
What is permafrost?
What the organisms at the bottom of a deep lake primarily feeds off of.
What are dead organisms from above?
This zone contains the deep water of the open ocean and animals such as whales and sharks.
What is the open ocean?
A stream of water that joins a larger stream to form eventually a river.
What is a tributary?