Small Things
These creatures produce about 80% of the earth's oxygen.
What are oceanic plankton and algae?
Animals that only eat other animals.
Surprisingly, this biome has very poor soil.
What is a tropical rainforest?
The source of most of the energy on the earth.
What is the sun?
These biomes cover 70% of the earth.
What are marine biomes?
An ancient philosopher/scientist who thought all matter is made up of small indivisible particles.
Who is Democritus?
Animals that only eat plants.
What are herbivores?
This biome has many trees that produce seeds in cones.
What is a coniferous forest?
A resource that is replaced at the same rate as it is used.
What is a renewable resource?
This ocean zone is very dark, very cold, and home to the angler fish.
What is the benthic zone?
The scientist who discovered the electron.
Who is Thomson?
Animals that eat both plants and animals.
What are omnivores?
This biome averages less than 10 inches of rain in a year.
What is a desert?
A resource that forms at a much slower rate than the rate at which it is consumed.
What is a nonrenewable resource?
This ocean zone requires hardy creatures that live in and out of the water.
What is the intertidal zone?
The scientist who discovered that atoms have a dense and hard center.
Who is Rutherford?
An animal that naturally preys on others.
What is a predator?
A fantastic biome in the summer with trees that lose their leaves during a terrible winter.
What is a temperate deciduous forest?
Reusing materials from waste or scrap.
What is recycling?
Dolphins and turtles live in the comfortable ocean zone.
What is the neritic zone?
The scientist who first believed that atoms of a particular substance are all identical.
Who is Dalton?
A diagram that shows feeding relationships.
What is a food web?
A biome with grass, scattered clumps of trees, and seasonal rains.
What is a savanna?
Preservation and wise use of resources.
What is conservation?
Blue whales live in this vast ocean zone.
What is the oceanic zone?