Topics of this game:
- Ecology is the scientific study of interaction between ______ and the environment.
- The input of solar energy and Earth’s revolution around the sun determines the ______ ______ patterns.
- What kind of factor (examples: water, light, temperature) determine microclimates?
- __ is the living components of the environment
- What kind of gas concentration is contributing to the warming of the earth and affecting some species?
- Water evaporates and warm, wet air masses flow from the tropics toward the ___.
- What climate is moderate by the oceans currents and large lakes?
- Body of waters moderate climate due to the _____ _____, giving it a high specific heat.
- A storm, human activity, a fire are events that changes a community called _____
- Major factors like temperature and precipitation are affecting the distribution of _____.
- The largest terrestrial biome is _______ _______.
- Decomposers work the most efficient and fast in the _____ _____ biome.
- When lakes become populated with decomposition of dead algae and cyanobacteria, fish are not able to live in the water due to the depletion of _____ .
- The importance of _____ brings oxygen rich water to the bottom and nutrients rich to the surfaces of temperate lakes.
- Tiny animals and immature stages of larger animals that float in the sea.
- Tiny microscopic marine algae that float.
- Biomes that have these characteristics: grasses and scattered trees, seasonal rainfalls/dry seasons, warm year-round, plants species that are fire-adapted, animals that are mostly herbivores.
- Biomes that have these characteristics: permafrost, very cold temperature year-round, high winds, little rain, NO trees or tall plants, lichens and mosses, migrating animals.
- Biomes that have these characteristics: dense and spiny evergreen shrubs dominate the area, coastal area, rainy winters, long, hot and dry summers, plants are drought and fire adapted, and support animals like amphibians, birds, insects.
- ______ is the movement of organisms from centers of high density or from center of origin to other environments.
