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An environment that is hot and damp.
What is a Tropical Rain Forest?
100
When destruction happens in nature.
What is a natural disaster?
100
A species not native to our area.
What is an exotic species?
100
The weather of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate?
100
When an animal is more active at night --- prowling, eating, etc.
What is nocturnal?
200
This environments covers the greatest amount of the earth.
What is the oceans?
200
This type of disaster contains very strong winds.
What is a tornado?
200
A species that is not native to an area and it is hard to control. An example would be kudzu.
What is an invasive species?
200
When an organism will move from one area to another because of weather, food supply, etc.
What is migrate?
200
Broken down plant and animal material -- found in the soil.
What is humus?
300
This is the type of forest we have in North America -- all around us!
What is the temperate forest?
300
Men, a drought or lightening can cause this disaster.
What is a wildfire?
300
This species has killed many trees in the Great Smoky Mountains.
What is the adelgid?
300
The remains of an organism that lived long ago.
What are fossils?
300
A layer of fat that keeps animals warm.
What is blubber?
400
An environment that can be very hot during the day, but very cool at night.
What is the desert?
400
When an organism blends in with its environment.
What is camouflage?
400
When animals sleep for a long period of time.
What is hibernate?
400
Balloonlike structures that help some algae float.
What are air bladders?
500
An environment where water covers the soil for most of the year.
What is the wetland?
500
A natural disaster that begins underground.
What is an earthquake?
500
Not a species -- but another way that an environment is changed.
What is pollution?
500
Another name for an organism.
What is a species?
500
All the living things in an environment.
What is a community?