Ecosystem # 4 Vocabulary

A treeless area in Arctic regions where the soil underground is permanently frozen.

• tundra

• rainforest

• grassland

• deciduous forest

A biome with temperatures which support plant growth year round.

• salt marshes

• grassland

• desert

• tropical

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

One of Earth's large ecosystems, with its own kind of climate, soil, plants, and animals.

• terrestrial

• desert

• biome

• pollutants

Having to do with water.

• terrestrial

• tropical

• aquatic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

A marshy tract that is wet with salt water or flooded by the sea.

• desert

• rainforest

• estuary

• salt marsh

a biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves every fall.

• deciduous forest

• desert

• savannah

• tundra

Related to land biomes.

• freshwater

• tropical

• terrestrial

• aquatic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A dry area with little or no precipitation or vegetation.

• rainforest

• grassland

• desert

• tropical

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

largest biome

• deciduous forest

• rainforest

• marine

• estuary

Where freshwater mixes with salt water

• salt marsh

• freshwater

• tropical

• estuary