Biome Adaptations
Animals here are equipped for the tree life, beaks are designed to eat seeds, and often animals are venomous.
What is the rainforest?
Developed countries use ______ of the world's resources, even though they make up only __________ of the world's population.
What is 75%, and 20%
There is an estimated 8.7 million species on Earth. What does that number look like in scientific notation?
What is 8.7x106
Coral reefs are the most biodiverse ecosystems. What is a close second?
What is the rainforest?
Biosphere, hydrosphere, geosphere, and atmosphere
What are the 4 spheres of Earth
Plants have needle-like leaves and seeds that develop in a cone.
What is the taiga
Biology, Earth science, Physics, Chemistry, and Social science are all included in this
What is the study of Environmental Science
All the members of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
What is a population
Fresh water from the rivers mixes with salt water from the ocean, creating a _____
What is an estuary?
A verbal or graphical explanation of how a system works or is organized (flow chart)
What is a conceptual model?
Most of the rainfall, here, happens during a wet season. Plants have large horizontal root systems. Grazing herbivores often migrate to find food and water
What is the Savanna
Gases that trap and radiate heat
What are greenhouse gases?
Scientists look at the distribution of ages and survivorship curve to determine this.
What is predict a population size
__________ of the word's water is freshwater
Wind, hydroelectric, solar, geothermal biomass, tidal power, and hydrogen are classified as _____
What is renewable energy?
Animals have thick, scaly skin to retain water, and are most active at night.
What is the desert
water vapor is the most common _______.
What is greenhouse gas
Someone who studies historical size and makeup of the populations of countries in order to make predictions and comparisons is called a ________
What is a demographer?
An increase in the amount of nutrients in an aquatic biome, creating an abundance of plants and algae
What is eutrophication?
Converts the sun's energy into a usable form.
What is a photovoltaic cell?
Animals are camouflaged with a brownish-grey color that lets them move through the low lying brush without being seen
What is the chaparral
This shows the productive are of Earth needed to support one person in a particular country (includes land, sea, forests, animals, area that can absorb pollution)
What is an ecological footprint
This type of survivorship curve indicates an organisms birth and death rate are the same, at all ages.
What is type II
The cycle of processes by which water circulates between the oceans, atmosphere, and land; involving precipitation as rain and snow, drainage in streams and rivers and return to the atmosphere by evaporation and transpiration.
What is the water cycle?
Competition, predication, parasitism, and disease are examples of _____
What are density-dependent factors?