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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Aquatic Biome
Marine Biome
Advanced
100
All the living and non-living things in an area
What is an ecosystem?
100
Frozen ground
What is Permafrost?
100
Combination of land and water ecosystem
What are wetlands?
100
Grows in shallow warm water, actually living animal, has special relationship with algae/as the it dies the skeleton makes up the reef
What is coral?
100
The large root systems of desert plants and ability to with stand supreme cold weather or deep sea pressure are all called...
What adaptations?
200
A group of organisms of one species that live in an area at the same time
What is a population?
200
The three main types of freshwater biomes.
What are 1. ponds and lakes 2. rivers and streams, 3. wetlands?
200
Speed of river will determine these
What are plants and animals?
200
Coral does not need it, in fact to much will harm it..
What are nutrients?
200
We only know about 1 percent of the organisms of this biome..
What is the tropical rain forest?
300
A large ecosystem withe generally the same climate and organisms; one of these can cover many countries
What is a biome?
300
Not moving ecosystems like lakes and ponds are also called this
What is lentic?
300
Wetlands help filter the water and they prevent..
What is flooding?
300
Coral reefs are important ecosystems, they protect the shoreline from storms and provide many new..
What is medicine?
300
Arkansas ecosystem is part of this biome..
What is the deciduous forest?
400
The role that an organism has in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
400
Number of zones that lakes are divided into
What is four?
400
Very important wetland; where rivers drain into the ocean
What is estuary?
400
These are located in the deep sea, they have bacteria that produce food..
What deep sea vents?
400
Members of a community depend on one another for ..
What is food, shelter and reproduction?
500
All the populations in an area
What is a community?
500
Rivers and streams are often called this because they are moving..
What is lotic?
500
Not actually a fish, same phylum as coral and sea anemones
What is a jellyfish?
500
Name some organisms located in the deep sea (2)
What are tube worms and crabs?
500
If habitats are polluted or destroyed what may happen to the animals living there?
What is extinction?