Definitions
All of the living and non living items that interact in a particular area
What is an ecosystem?
A series of organisms in the order they feed on one another.
What is the food chain?
A biome that receives less than 10 inches of rain per year.
What is a desert?
Ecosystems that contain flowing fresh water.
What are rivers and streams?
An ecosystem that is surrounded by trees.
What is a forest?
The environment in which you live
What is a habitat?
An animal that eats both plants and animals.
What is omnivore?
The only continent that has no glaciers.
What is Australia?
A large body of freshwater.
What is a lake?
Considered the roof of the forest where most of the tall tree tops are.
What is the canopy layer?
A large area of Earth with a similar climate, landscape and types of plants and animals.
What is a biome?
Examples of these are vultures, flies and earthworms.
What are scavengers?
An illusion that can trick travelers into thinking there is water ahead in the desert.
What is a mirage?
A smaller stream or river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary?
The amount of land surface that is covered by forest.
What is 1/3?
The general or average weather conditions of a certain region.
What is climate?
Interactions among multiple food chains.
What is a food web?
The percentage of the world's fresh water frozen in glaciers on Antartica.
What is 70%?
The reason water and oil will separate when poured in a cup together.
What is density?
Types of forest that grow near the equator between the tropics.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The plants and animals of an ecosystem.
What are flora and fauna?
Organisms that eat dead plant and animal material and break it down into basic elements and molecules.
What are decomposers?
The part of a glacier that is over water but still connected to land.
What is an ice shelf?
When layers of water in a lake mix due to changes in temperature.
What is overturn?
Types of Christmas trees such as pine and fir that have needles.
What is a coniferous tree?