The soil in this biome is frozen all but a few weeks during the year.
What is a Tundra.
100
A polar bear is a likely resident of this biome.
What is the Tundra.
100
This biome receives less than 25 centimeters of rain or snow each year
What is a desert biome?
100
This biome has more species of animals and plants than all other biomes.
What is the Tropical Rain Forest?
100
This biome is known for receiving large amounts of rain, and relatively hot temperatures.
What is the tropical Rain Forest?
200
This is a group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time. For example it may be all the oak trees or all the red ants in an area.
What is a population?
200
This is a very cold biome with little rain and generally found in the most northern areas of the world
What is a Tundra
200
This is made up of all the populations in an area.
What is a community?
200
This "B" word is the regions of the surface and atmosphere of the Earth (or other planet) where living organisms exist.
What is the biosphere?
200
Trees do not grow well in this biome because of the small amount of rain it receives.
What is desert or what is grassland.
300
This is the role that an organism has in an ecosystem
What is its niche?
300
This is the place in which an animal or plant lives. It is made up of the soil, air and water, as well as the plants of the area.
What is the habitat?
300
This is the term for a large ecosystem with generally the same climate and organisms.
What is a biome?
300
All the living and nonliving things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
300
The name of the biome that covers much of the East Coast of the United States, including Maryland?
What is the Deciduous Forest Biome?
400
Some energy in an ecosystem is changed to this, and not passed on.
What is heat?
400
Most trees in this biome are conifers--trees that have needles.
What is the Taiga biome?
400
These cold and dry biomes cover much of Canada and Russia.
What is a Taiga biome?
400
This biome is covered with grasses and has very few trees.
What is the grassland biome?
400
Most of these biomes are found in the Northern areas of Canada and Russia.
What is Tundra
500
This term refers to trees that loose their leaves in the winter time in order to save food.
What is Deciduous?
500
This is the "other" kind of rainforest. These rainforests are found on the west coast of North America, from Oregon to Alaska.
What is a Temperate Rainforest?
500
The prefix ECO comes from the greek word "oikos" with this meaning.
What is house or living place?
500
When the amount of food available to a population increases, the number of the species in the population tends to do this.
What is increase?
500
This "L" word is the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle?