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World Biomes
Ecosystems
Food Chains and Food Webs
Ecosystems, the environment and humans
Protecting the Environment
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It's got cool summers and very cold winters. In its typical flora you can find lichen, moss, some grasses and in its typical fauna you can find migratory birds in summers, and Arctic foxes.
What is the the temperature, typical flora, and fauna for the Tundra biome?
100
It's the interaction between all living and non-living things in an area.
What is an ecosystem?
100
grass-grasshopper-frog-hawk
Which of these is a secondary consumer?
100
Minerals, natural gas, fossil fuels, coal, etc.
What are some of the natural resources humans have always used?
100
We can protect our environment by protecting areas of land by making them natural or national parks and by creating laws to control pollution or to protect endangered species.
How can we protect our environment?
200
Coniferous Forest
Name a biome which has got evergreen coniferous trees
200
It must provide air, water, soil, sunlight, temperature, and climate.
What must the environment provide for living things?
200
Producers
Which group do grass, trees, flowers, plankton, soil, algae, and Thorn Thistles belong to?
200
When coal burns, sulphur in the coal reacts with oxygen in the air to form strong acids, and when petrol burns, the heat makes nitrogen and oxygen in the air react to form one strong acid. Then these acids dissolve in rain.
How does acid rain forms?
200
Solar energy and windmills
Name two types of non-polluting energy
300
Because it's got warm and hot daytime temperatures all year long and it's got a precipitation of less than 250 mm rain each year.
Why can you only find cacti, and small bushes in a desert biome?
300
Humans will be consider a population because they're organisms who belong to the same species.
Why will all humans be consider a population?
300
They will all died out.
According to the food web if there are no food producers, what will happen to all comsumers and decomposers?
300
It occurs when waste is deposited in rivers, lakes, and seas.
How does water pollution occur?
300
save electricity, don't waste water, recycle, etc...
What can you do at home and at school to protect the environment?
400
Temperate Deciduous Forest
Which biome will have deciduous trees, shrubs, mosses, deer, squirrells, and foxes?
400
Because these populations interact with each other.
Why will a dragonfly, a frog, and a fish be part of a community?
400
The connected food chains.
What is a food web?
400
It's the increase of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
What is greenhouse effect?
400
No, because they are protected areas of land where noone can cut down trees or interfere in any way with the ecosystems.
Can people build factories in national parks? Explain your answer?
500
Hot summers and cool winters.
How's the temperature in a Mediterranean Biome?
500
They are classified into flora, fauna, fungi, and microorganisms.
How are living things in an ecosystem classified?
500
Energy moves through and ecosystem through food chains and food webs.
How does energy move through an ecosystem?
500
a gradual increase in world temperatures caused by polluting gases such as carbon dioxide which are collecting in the air around the Earth and preventing heat escaping into space.
What is global warming?
500
Ecological organisations and political parties.
Name some people who are trying to protect the environment