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Biomes
Habitats and Niches
Food Chains
The Biosphere
Natures Recycling
100
Permanently frozen layer of soil
What is permafrost?
100
what is a habitat?
Place were an organism normally lives
100
organisms that can produce their own food
What are producers?
100
largest ecosystems, may cover thousands/millions of square kilometers
what is a biome?
100
Evaporation, condensation, rain, runoff, lakes, groundwater
What is the water cycle?
200
White-tailed deer, red fox, cardinal
what is a deciduous forest?
200
What is prairie dog?
This animal can live in only one kind of habitat
200
cannot produce their own food, and must get their food from eating plants and animals
What are consumers?
200
a narrow zone were all life exists and extends from the deepest part of the ocean to about 8 km
What is biosphere?
200
the major building block of cells
What is proteins
300
A place were deer, elk, bears, and wolves live...
What is coniferous forest?
300
An organisms role in the ecosystem or how an organism "makes its living"
What is a niche?
300
Animals that only eat plants
What are herbivores?
300
the study of interactions between organisms and their environment
What is ecology?
300
water cycle, nitrogen cycle , and the carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle
What are the natural recycling processes?
400
The amount of salt in the water...
What is salinity?
400
the niche of this animal includes scavenging for food and fighting for a shell to live in...
what is a hermit crab?
400
Lions ,wolves ,sharks ,and vultures...
What are some examples of carnivores?
400
When scientists divide the biosphere into smaller units....
What is ecosystem?
400
when the heat from the sun makes water rise into little clouds...
What is evaporation?
500
Millions of bison grazed on this North American biome in the 1800's...
what is grasslands?
500
three animals with a preferred habitat...
what are coyotes, bullfrogs, and penguins?
500
is two or more food chains that over lap
What is a food web?
500
the surroundings of plants and animals
What is environment?
500
the form of nitrogen needed from soil
what is nitrates?