A very dry and hot ecosystem

A very cold and dry ecosystem

Warm temperature area like prairies and savannahs that receives some rainfall parts of the year and then has a very dry season

A warm ecosystem that receives plenty of rainfall throughout the year

A cold ecosystem that consists of conifers and contains a large majority of the world's trees. Largest land Biome

A mild temperate ecosystem that experiences all four seasons

A climate region with particular plants and animals

The type of weather patterns that take place in an area over time.

Found mainly above 60 degrees N latitude

A biome with trees that lose their leaves

The biome with the highest amount and diversity of life

The coldest land biome

The ground in the tundra that is permanently frozen all year. carbon can be stored here.

short term changes at a given place and time (NOW...look outside the window)

winds that blow in the same direction over large areas of the Earth

Blow toward the equator

wind does NOT blow, usually near the equator

when you go kinda crazy after being stuck in the same place for a long time (think doldrums)

wind blowing towards the poles

large streams of surface water

warm current from the US to England

When the cold air fronts pick up moisture over the great lakes and dump it as larger amounts of snow

air masses of particular temperature or moisture

when the rain falls on ONE side of the mountain but then NOTHING falls on the other side

seasonal winds that bring either dry or moist air

high content of moisture in the air (think thick and sticky...very sweaty!)

rooted plants

something that eats producers

things that eat things that eat plants

things that eat secondary consumers

plants

animals

when a species has died out (all gone...no more)

the place where plants and/or animals can live well

the spread of desert like conditions

decaying matter on top of the top soil

generally the top lay of the ground (high in nutrients)

the layer right under the top soil

the layer under subsoil

also called parent rock, the bottom layer of the crust

resources that the earth replaces naturally like sunshine, water, wind, trees sometimes

resources that are NOT replenishable such as coal, oil, natural gas, trees sometimes

using water to make electricity

used to collect the sun's energy and use it for power

converting waste into reusable material

using every day items one might normally throw away to repurpose them as something else

the chopping down of trees without replanting any more (usually done by slash and burn farmers)