Biomes
Biodiversity
Sustainability
Ecological Succession
Review from Previous Units
100

This is an environmental area that is characterized by the amount of precipitation, climate and the type of organisms that live there.  

What is a biome? 

100

The variety of life in an ecosystem is called this. 

What is biodiversity? 

100
An environment that maintains its stability over a long period of time and in times of stress is considered this. 

What is sustainable? 

100

These are the two types of ecological succession.

What are primary and secondary succession?

100

This human body system transports nutrients and oxygen to cells. 

What is the circulatory system? 

200

This biome receives little rain and can reach very high temperatures during the day. 

What is a desert?

200

This terrestrial biome has the highest biodiversity.

What is the tropical rain forest?

200

Environments that contain high biodiversity are more likely to overcome disasters because of this. 

What is that they have high sustainability? 

200

Primary succession takes longer than secondary because it must start off on this. 

What is rocks?

200

This human body system breaks down food, absorbs nutrients, and converts food into energy. 

What is the digestive system? 

300

This biome is aquatic and includes places like lakes, ponds, rivers and streams. 

What is freshwater? 

300

The blocks in a Jenga game would represent this in an ecosystem. 

What is the species/organisms/biodiversity?

300
This is what represents sustainability in a Jenga (tower of blocks) game. 

What is the stability of the tower of blocks? 

300

Forest fires, hurricanes and floods can all lead to this type of succession. 

What is secondary succession?

300

This human body system provides protection, provides structure and frame for the body and produces new red blood cells. 

What is the skeletal system?

400

Tropical rain forests are relatively warm and receive large amounts of rainfall due to being close to this. 

What is the equator? 

400

A food web shows more biodiversity than a food web because there are more of these in it. 

What are organisms/species?

400

This human action can effect the sustainability of an ecosystem greatly by chopping down too many trees. 

What is deforestation?

400

This stable and dominant community of plants and animals is the final stage in both primary and secondary succession. 

What is a climax community? 

400

These two human body systems work together to provide chemicals to regulate bone growth, maintain proper blood sugar levels and help to shape mood and feelings with signals from the brain to the rest of the body. 

What are the nervous and endocrine systems?

500

Tropical rain forests have the highest biodiversity, but this biome has the lowest biodiversity. 

What is the tundra?

500

This aquatic biome has the highest biodiversity. 

What is the ocean?

500

This is how sustainability decreases in an environment.

What is a decrease in biodiversity? 

500
Moss and lichen are known as these in primary succession because they are the first to appear and colonize on the rocks. 

What are pioneer species?

500

This human body system consists of the hair, skin and nails. 

What is the integumentary system?