Terms
Where living and nonliving things affect one another.
What is an ECOSYSTEM?
An area in which the main plants are trees.
What is a FOREST?
A forest of tall trees growing where there is a lot of rain and the weather is not too hot or too cold.
What is a COASTAL FOREST?
What is FRESH WATER?
Everything around a plant or animal.
What is its ENVIRONMENT?
A forest of trees that form seeds in cones.
What is a CONIFEROUS FOREST?
Name the layers of the rainforest.
1. Canopy (top)
2. Understory (middle)
3. Forest Floor (bottom)
The Earth's largest ecosystem is this.
What is an OCEAN?
A group of the same kind of living things that live in the same place at the same time.
What is a POPULATION?
A forest of trees that lose and regrow their leaves each year.
What is a DECIDUOUS FOREST?
What is a DESERT?
BONUS: What are two ways humans have negatively changed ecosystems?
1. Cutting down forests for homes and businesses
2. Destroying animal habitats
3. Polluting water and air
Provides a population with all its needs.
What is a HABITAT?
A forest growing in a hot and rainy place.
What is a RAINFOREST?
A large, flat area where tall grasses grow.
What is a GRASSLAND?
BONUS: What are at least two ways humans have positively changed ecosystems?
1. planting new trees
2. recycling
3. Protecting natural areas
4. irrigation to dry areas
All of the populations within an ecosystem.
What is a COMMUNITY?
More types of living things live here than anywhere else on earth.
What is a TRPOICAL RAINFOREST?
Oceans and seas contain this.
What is SALTWATER?
BONUS: What is the name of trees that lose their leaves?
What are DECIDUOUS TREES?