Water Cycle
water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
What is Precipitation?
The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem abbreviated.
What is G.Y.E.?
A predator that is popular in North America, and the Eurasian regions with a coat of fur and recognizable in the winter. Many with use these to symbolize alpha or large canine.
What is a Wolf?
The process where plants use sunlight for energy
What is photosynthesis?
This protects the Grand Tetons
What is a National Park?
When the physical state of water is changed from a liquid state to a gaseous state.
What is Evaporation?
Non-living aspect
A brown very large omnivore than can weigh to 300-600 pounds with non-retractable claws. Hibernate during the winter.
What is a Grizzly Bear?
Something that breaks down animal waste and scat.
What is Bacteria?
This changed the face of the Teton Range
What is a glacier?
Flow from a drainage basin or watershed that appears in surface streams.
What is Runoff?
A living organism is an ecosystem
What is biotic?
A red small, or medium sized predator with upright pointed ears, and sharp instincts.
What is a Fox?
Triangular tree with needles that point up
What is a fir tree?
Event that Caused mountain ranges to be built
What is an earthquake?
When moisture from the soil evaporates into the atmosphere or when transpiration from plants occurs.
what is Evapotranspiration
A place where animals live
White Fox to Rabbit
What is the Predator- prey relationship?
This type of animal only eats plants
What is a herbivore?
The four GYE Park communities that interact with eah other
What is Alpine, Forest, Wetlands, and Sagebrush?
The process by which water moves downward through the soil under gravitational forces.
What is Percolation?
Throwing out trash into the GYE
What is a change that can impact the GYE?
A small, high elevation mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur.
What is a Pika?
Examples of Conifer trees
What is pine, spruce, juniper, and fir trees?
Three different types of Rocks
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary