Science Q4 review

a lawyer of permanently frozen soil in a tundra

• permofrost

• permafrost

• Permanent frost

a biome consisting mostly of evergreen trees

• Tundra

• Taiga

• Deciduous Forest

• Permafrost

A biome that is cold, dry, and treeless

• Taiga

• Toyota

• Desert

• Tundra

Areas between the tropics and polar circles are ______

• temperate regions

• tropical regions

• subtropical regions

• polar regions

• warm regions

a model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding relationships

• food web

• food train

• food rout

• food web

shows how food chains in a community are interconected

• food chain

• trophic level

• food web

• energy transfer

the process during which producers use chemical energy in matter rather than light energy to make food

• decomposing

• consuming

• photosynthesis

• chemosynthesis

• digestion

a series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food energy molecule glucose and give off oxygen

• photosynthesis

• chemosynthesis

• correct

• digestion

• decomposition

What percent of the energy in one trophic level transfers to the next

• 10%

• 100%

• 1%

• 90%

• none

True or False: temperate rainforests are the forests that grow near the equator

• True

• False