Migration
The seasonal movement of animals from one place to another
What is Migration?
A large area of land covered by trees and underbrush
What is a Forest?
The gas that plants give off.
What is Oxygen?
A model that shows how energy and nutrients move through an ecosystem by showing who eats whom
What is a Food Chain?
The body of water that separates the Eastern Shore from the mainland.
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
The direction most birds fly when migrating.
What is South.
A big umbrella of greenery in a forest.
What is a Canopy?
The process of plants using sunlight to create energy
What is Photosynthesis?
A collection of food chains that overlap in an ecosystem
What is a Food Web?
The location of the annual Pony Swim & Auction, where wild ponies are rounded up and auctioned off.
What is Chincoteague, VA?
The time a goose migrates (day or night?)
What is Day?
Trees that retain their leaves year-round (can be both broadleaf and coniferous)
What are Evergreen Trees?
The main food source for plants
Animals that get their energy from eating producers.
What are Consumers?
The two counties on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
What are Accomack and Northampton?
The sense that salmon use to help them migrate (sight, smell, sound, touch, taste)
Trees that have needle-like or scale-like leaves and produce cones
What are Coniferous Trees?
Plants that live underwater.
What are Aquatic Plants?
Plants, fruits, and vegetables that make their own energy from the sun.
What are Producers?
The NASA space launch base located on the Eastern Shore.
What is Wallops Island.
The reason monarch butterflies migrate.
What is climate? or Seasons? (they're avoiding cold weather)
Trees that lose their leaves seasonally and have broad, flat leaves
What are Deciduous Trees?
The world's fastest-growing woody plant, with a growth rate of 35 inches in a single day
What is Bamboo?
Organisms that break down dead organisms and return nutrients to the soil
What are Decomposers?
The longest chain of undeveloped islands in the temperate zone, located on the Eastern Shore (one example is Assateague).
What are the Barrier Islands?