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Chaparral
Deserts
California's Forest
CA's Producers
Nonnative Plants/Animals
100
This is the dry region with a thick growth of brush and small trees.
What is chaparral.
100
Describe what the weather is like in the day and the night.
What is hot and dry during the day and cool nights.
100
Where are California's evergreen forests found?
What is northern California or higher up in mountainous areas.
100
What is a producer.
What is any organism that uses the sun to make its own food.
100
If a plant or animal is nonnative what does that mean?
It was brought in from a different location.
200
In the chaparral, there is a dense blanket of _________ and low trees.
What are shrubs.
200
California has two deserts that cover about 98,000 sq km. What are these two deserts called?
What are the Mojave Desert and the Colorado Desert.
200
If a tree is a deciduous tree, what happens to their leaves?
They fall out.
200
What is a consumer?
What is an organism that consumes a producer or another consumer to get energy.
200
Without natural checks, nonnative plants and animals can often spread _________________.
What is quickly.
300
Plants that have adapted to this region may have these kinds of leaves.
What is large and thick OR needlelike leaves.
300
The Colarado Desert is the ______________ desert in the United States. Is it coldest, warmest, oldest, smallest or largest?
What is warmest.
300
This kind of tree does not lose its leaves all at the same time. These trees are commonly called what.
What are evergreens.
300
California has more than 5,000 plant species. More than __ % of these are found nowhere else in the world.
What is 30 %.
300
This is the most common method that nonnative plants and animals are introduced to California.
What are ships.
400
Even though wildfires can cause great damage, they are an important abiotic factor. What does abiotic mean?
What is a nonliving part of the ecosystem.
400
These types of trees are found in the sert. They are part of the yucca family and have uplifted branches and bunches of needlelike leaves.
What is the Joshua Tree
400
Evergreens are also called _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ because they produce seeds in speical structures called cones.
What are conifers.
400
Several species of grasses are unique to California. This kind of grass grows in the the North Coast area.
What is the leafy reed grass.
400
This plant is yellow, thorny and is poisonous to horses.
What is the yellow starthistle.
500
Chaparral comes from the Spanish word chaparro. What does this mean in English?
What is "evergreen oak."
500
Name seven different types of animals that are found in California's deserts.
What are bighorn sheep, kit foxes, coyotes, spotted skunks, jackrabbits, eagles, hawks, owls, quail, roadrunners, warblers, orioles, tortoises.
500
This type of animal only lives in old-growth forests because the branches of the trees are farther apart, leaving more open space.
What is the northern spotted owl.
500
This type of tree plays an important role in the desert ecosystem.
What is the Joshua Tree.
500
Why are nonnative pigs dangerous to animals in California?
They eat almost anything and outcompete animals that eat a more limited diet.