| A | B |
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| estuary | where fresh and salt water meet |
| water | biome which covers 70% of the earth |
| Temperate Deciduous Forest | biome we live in |
| tundra | most northern biome |
| permafrost | permanent frozen layer of ice in the tundra |
| taiga | where we get most of our paper from |
| conifers | trees that do not lose their leaves found in the taiga |
| Coniferous Forest | another name for taiga |
| examples of running water | stream, river |
| examples of still water | lake, pond, swamp |
| desert | hot during the day, cold during the night |
| structural adaptation | something on the outside of the body which aids or helps a species |
| physiological adaptation | something inside of the body (a body mechanism)which aids a species |
| behavioral adaptation | some action or behavior that helps a species |
| precipitation examples | water, snow, ice, sleet, hail, freezing rain |
| autotroph | an organism that makes its own food |
| heterotroph | an organism that depends on others for food |
| omnivore | an organism that eats meats and plants |
| carnivore | an organism that eats meat or flesh |
| herbivore | an organism that only eats plants, or a primary producer (vegetarian) |
| decomposer | an organism that feeds off of dead animals |
| three levels of the rainforest | canopy, understory, moist floor |
| Tropical Rain Forest | biome which is depleting by the minute |
| 6 factors usually found in an ecosystem | sun, primary producer, primary consumer, secondary consumer, decomposer, non-living things |
| abiotic means. . . | non-living things |
| biotic means. . . | living things |
| "bio" means. . . | "related to life" |
| synonym for autotroph | producer |
| synonym for heterotroph | consumer |
| food web | food chains intermingled with one another form this |
| the primary source and beginning of energy is the | sun |
| main source of energy for food webs is. . . | food |
| density | the amount of something in a given amount of space |
| most dense biome is | Tropical Rain Forest |
| savanna | another name for grassland |
| evaporation | water heated by the sun and turns water into a gas state |
| three states of matter | solid, liquid, gas |
| oxygen | we breathe in, plants breathe out |
| carbon dioxide | we breathe out, plants breathe in |
| Ms. K. | your favorite teacher |
