Ecosystems & Adaptations
Non- Living things in an area
What is the environment?
All living things _________, or make copies of themselves.
What is reproduce?
Animals that have a backbone.
Who are vertebrates?
97% of the Earth's water is this.
What is salt water?
The process that breaks down or changes rocks.
What is weathering?
A change a living thing goes through, so it fits better with its environment and improves its chances of survival.
What is adaptation?
The amazing process that turns sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into food and oxygen for plants.
What is photosynthesis?
Means jointed leg.
What is Arthropod?
When water changes into vapor.
What is evaporation?
Name three natural causes of weathering.
What is water, wind, and plants?
Living AND non-living things in an area.
What is the ecosystem?
This is the transfer of pollen from the stamen to the top of the pistil.
This Arthropod class has 8 legs (4 pairs).
What is a low-pressure system?
State the WED Acronym.
What is weathering breaks it, erosion takes it, deposition drops it.
The coloring or covering that makes animals, people, and objects look like their surroundings.
This is the turning of all or part of an organism in a particular direction in response to an external stimulus.
What is tropism?
Animals that do NOT have a backbone.
Who are invertebrates?
Represented as a blue line with the teeth pointing toward the direction on movement.
What is a cold front?
The process of moving the bits of weathered material from one place to another.
What is erosion?
The part of the environment that determines what living things can live there.
What is the non-living things?
The thin stalk with a knoblike structure at the top which produces the pollen.
What is the stamen?
Name an insects three body segments.
What is the head, thorax, and abdomen?
A boundary between two air masses, one cool and the other warm, moving so that the warmer air replaces the cooler air.
What is a warm front?
Another name for decayed plant and animal matter, and no it's not a dip.
What is humus (HYOO-muhs)?