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Food Web
Carbon Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Abiotic Factors
Organism Adaptations and Symbiotic Relationships
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Small animal that is prey of kit foxes, coyotes, bobcats, and red-tailed hawks. Mostly tan colored to blend into desert landscape.
What is Desert Cottontail Rabbit
100
The process of breathing that exhales C02
What is respiration
100
Where does the nitrogen go after the hawk eats the rabbit A. The Hawk, B. The rabbit, C. The Atmosphere
A. The Hawk
100
True or False: Wind is common in the desert.
true
100
The symbiotic relationship between the road runner and vulture when the road runner is eating most rodents and lizards whole (leaving nothing left except for bone) and the vulture, who's prey are dead animals, doesn't have enough food.
What is an example of commensalism?
200
A predator of Cottontail Rabbits and rodents. http://www.dot.ca.gov/newtech/environmental/images/fox.gif
What is kit fox
200
When a desert plant or animal dies but does not decompose normally so the carbon is released into the atmosphere, the carbon(still in the animal) gets trapped in the soil and over millions of years, becomes ________.
What is fossil fuels
200
What is an essentials to the nitrogen cycle(nitrogen fixation)?
What is lightning
200
True or False: Typic Torrifluvent is a soil native to Death Valley.
true
200
For example, a vulture. Vultures are a type of bird that prey off dead animals.
What is a scavenger?
300
Level one consumer that is eaten by Fringed Myotis(a type of bat). [Hint: The first part of it's name is also the name of a month.]
What is june beetle
300
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What is animal(chuckwalla) eats the plant(creosote bush) and stores carbon
300
The largest consituent.
What is N2
300
The average amount of rainfall per year is: A.4.5" B.1" C.0.5" D.1.5"
D.1.5"
300
Vultures have found a way to keep cool in Death Valley by urinating on their own legs so they don't get to hot. The Kangaroo Rat has changed it's body to allow it to survive without drinking much water, they have special organs that allow the animal's body to absorb moisture from the air.
What is a adaptation of an animal in the Desert?
400
A plant known to be poisonous to humans and named for the ink-like color of the berry's juice.
What is inkweed
400
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What is plant(creosote bush) absorbs carbon through photosynthesis and releases it through respiration
400
Chemical formula for nitrous oxide
What is N2O
400
If the salinity of Death Valley is 2.5 times as much as the salinity of sea water and the salinity of sea water is 35g per liter how much saliene is in 3 liters from Death Valley?
262.5g
400
A Kangaroo Rat doesn't need _____ to survive. It gets this from food.
What is water