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Life Zones
Terminology
Flora&Fauna
Energy&Ecosystems
Potpourri
100

This life zone above the plains is characterized by Pinyon Pines and Juniper trees in the Southern Rockies.

What are the foothills?

100
This term describes the living component of an ecosystem.
What is biotic?
100

This water loving big tree is native to our prairie life zone.

What is a Plains Cottonwood??

100
A common feeding level within a food web.
What is a trophic level?
100

Members of the same _____ can mate and produce fertile offspring.

What is a species?

200
The most significant limiting factor in this life zone is water
What is the prairie?
200
A plant that is native to a particular habitat or area.
What is endemic?
200
My flat and friendly needles are hard to roll and my cones are papery cones do not last long!
What is a fir?
200
This term describes an animal that serves as both a primary and secondary consumer.
What is an omnivore?
200
A ______ is made of up of all the different species living within an ecosystem.
What is a community?
300
Heavily forested lands at 9000 feet characterize this life zone.
What is the montane?
300
This term describes the stalk of a simple leaf.
What is a petiole?
300
I belong to this group of top order consuming birds that kill their prey with their claws.
What is a raptor?
300
These organisms make up the base of the energy pyramid.
What is a producer?
300
A type of symbiosis where both members are positively affected.
What is mutualism?
400
These stunted and twisted trees grow in alpine "tree islands" due to high winds.
What are krummholz?
400

A tree with "naked seeds" that are contained in a cone.

What is a gymnosperm?

400
This pioneer’s leaves will be found fluttering in the breezes of a disturbed area.
What is an aspen?
400
_________ increases within an energy pyramid each time energy is transformed and becomes more random.
What is entropy?
400
An ________ reflects both the type and condition of a particular life zone by its relative abundance.
What is an indicator species?
500

This conifer has bundled needles and loves xeric habitat in the sub alpine life zone.  It is the longest living species on Earth.

What is a Bristlecone Pine?

500
Habitat that occurs alongside running water, such as a river or stream.
What is riparian?
500
An integral animal within an ecosystem that many other populations rely upon for the overall health of the ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?
500
This term describes the large animals that occupy the highest tropic level of an energy pyramid.
What are top order consumers?
500
The term used to describe the amplification of a toxic substance up the food chain within an ecosystem.
What is biological magnification?