A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region
What is a biome?
100
the name given to the tops of trees that poke up above the rain forest canopy.
What is a emergent layer?
100
a biome that is always changing.
What is temperate deciduous forest?
100
an ecosystem that forms due to the low level of rainfall it receives each year. every hot place.
What is desert?
100
denoting an animal that migrates
What is migratory?
200
the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
What is climate?
200
an ornamental cloth covering hung or held up over something, especially a throne or bed.
What is a canopy
200
the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America.
What is taiga?
200
a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.
What is tundra?
200
a plant that lives for more than two years.
What is are perennials?
300
the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
What is latitude?
300
a plant that grows on another plant but is not parasitic, such as the numerous ferns, bromeliads, air plants, and orchids growing on tree trunks in tropical rain forests.
What is a Epiphyte?
300
a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.
What is savanna?
300
a thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year, occurring chiefly in polar regions.
What is permafrost?
300
a succulent plant.
What is succulents?
400
Altitude or height is defined based on the context in which it is used.
What is altitude?
400
a layer of vegetation beneath the main canopy of a forest.
What is understory?
400
a division of a larger biome grouping of grasslands that includes tropical savannas.
What is temperate grassland?
400
the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
What is pollution?
400
having normal physical functions suspended or slowed down for a period of time; in or as if in a deep sleep.
What is dormant?
500
The tropical rain forest is a hot, moist biome found near Earth's equator.
What is a tropical rain forest?
500
Temperate rain forests are coniferous or broadleaf forests that occur in the temperate zone and receive heavy rainfall.
What is temperate rain forest?
500
vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes.
What is chaparral?
500
the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
What is a habitat?
500
prolonged torpor or dormancy of an animal during a hot or dry period.