Types of Vegetation
General Vegetation and Water Systems Info
Oceans
Rivers
Miscellaneous
100
Name the three types of Natural Vegetation.
What are Forests, Grasslands, and Deserts.
100
What are three reasons for water systems to be used outside of food production?
What are transportation, religious and political purposes.
100
What are the two main oceans in the world?
What are the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
100
What part of a river is the picture depicting?
What is a floodplain.
100
What is dissolved salt content of a body of water called?
What is salinity.
200
Which trees drop leaves seasonally and seem bare in the winter?
What are deciduous trees.
200
What are three human-made water systems commonly used?
What are dams, reservoirs, and canals.
200
What two things are caused by warm and cold ocean currents meeting near coastal regions?
What are hurricanes and cyclones.
200
What are the parts of a river that branch off into other directions?
What are tributaries.
200
What is number 10 representing in this map?
What is the Indian Ocean.
300
What are the cold regional deserts referred to as?
What are tundras.
300
What are some negative effects of human involvement for natural vegetation in habitats and for species?
What is deforestation and loss of biodiversity.
300
What is the term for ocean currents coming from polar locations?
What are deep currents.
300
What is it called when the mixing of fresh and salt water occurs when a river meets a sea or ocean?
What is an estuary.
300
What is number 8 representing in the image?
What is the Arctic Ocean.
400
Which Forests grow between the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn?
What are Tropical Forests.
400
Name the three factors affecting natural vegetation.
What is soil, temperature and moisture.
400
What is the term for ocean currents coming in from tropical areas?
What are surface currents.
400
What are fertile lands near the mouth of a river?
What is a delta.
400
What is something that prevents floods but can also cause them to become more severe if they are not equal on both sides?
What are levees.
500
Which grassland region is usually characterized as existing on the equator?
What is the Savanna.
500
Name the five benefits of natural vegetation.
What is oxygen, natural habitats, resources, recreation, and spiritual connections.
500
What is the circular pattern that flows in oceans called?
What is a gyre.
500
How are rivers formed? Through what two causes?
What are erosion and deposition.
500
What epidemic was caused from poor hygiene and sewage filtration in water ways hundreds of years ago?
What is the cholera epidemic.