A
Abiotic Characteristics: The average temperatures, average precipitation amounts, elevation range, etc. for climates and ecosystems
Adapt: to get use to a new environment
Adaptations:the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
Agricultural: the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products
Avalanche chutes:a natural channel down a steep mountain slope.
B
Benefit-something that is advantageous or good
Burrow: a hole or burrow that habitats an animal/s
C
Chamber : an enclosed space that houses animals for the winter
Classification:the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.
"the classification
Conserving : stopping the waste of valuable resources
Consumers : animals that eat many different types of food
Congregate : to come together
Cavities : a hole in a tree.
D
Deciduous:a tree or a shrub shedding its leaves constantly
Disturbed-affected by a disturbance
Diverse : of several types
Dragonfly Larva: under water creatures that are able to move through water by shooting h2o out of their butts and are able to move through water quickly
Dry Avalanches : dry snow which makes the avalanche travel at a higher speed.
E
Economics-the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region
Elevations: the height above sea level of where you are.
Epidemic-a temporary prevalence of a disease
F
Foliage-the leaves of a plant
Flourish : developing ; thriving
G
Giardia-A sickness that is caused from water that is not pure
Great Plains: A semiarid region east of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
Groundwater: water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock
Greenhouse Gasses : They cause climate change
Global Warming : A term used to describe the increasing temperature of the Earth.
Genetic : anything that allows an animal to do something
H
Hail:pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds
Harvested: the season when ripened crops are gathered
Hibernaculum:winter quarters, as of a hibernating animal
I
Infest:to harass
Invade:to spread over or into in a harmful way
J
K
L
Larva:the young of any invertebrate animal.
Lichen:a simple slow-growing plant that typically forms a low crustlike, leaflike, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees
Lodgepole:a pole used (as by the Plains Indians of North America) in the construction of a lodge
M
Margin:a border or edge.
Monogamous : when you have feelings for something and have only one mate
Migrate : move to another place
Marshes : wet--like a swamp
N
Natural Conditions: the way something is without being affected by humans
Nimble : flexible
Nocturnally:an animal that hunts in the night, and sleeps in the day time.
Nutrient:a substance that plants, animals, and people need to live and grow
O
Organisms : Living plants or animals
Overgrazed: graze so heavily that the vegetation cannot keep the soil from eroding.
P
Porous:having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass
Picea : a genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees.
Pine seeds:Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus). About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of notable value as a human food.
Pitch: a natural glue
Photosynthesis : a process used by plants to make food.
Preserve:to keep safe from harm or injury
Prevent: to keep something from happening
R
Runoff:the draining away of water or substances carried in it from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure
Riparian Areas : the bank of a river, stream, lake
Riparian Zone: it is where land and a river/steam meet
Reverence : a feeling or an attitude of deep respect tinged with awe
S
Sapling:a young tree
Severely:to an undesirably great or intense degree
Solitary : existing alone
Sparse:not thick or dense
Species:a particular group of things or people that belong together or have some shared quality
Stout : chunkey or fat
Substantial:of ample or considerable amount
T
Tumbleweed:a plant of dry regions that breaks off near the ground in late summer and is tumbled about by the wind, thereby dispersing its seeds.
V
Variety : a lot of different types of things
W
Weather:Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy
Widespread : everywhere
Wet Avalanches : wet snow which makes the avalanche travel at a slower speed.
Abiotic Characteristics: The average temperatures, average precipitation amounts, elevation range, etc. for climates and ecosystems
Adapt: to get use to a new environment
Adaptations:the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
Agricultural: the science or practice of farming, including cultivation of the soil for the growing of crops and the rearing of animals to provide food, wool, and other products
Avalanche chutes:a natural channel down a steep mountain slope.
B
Benefit-something that is advantageous or good
Burrow: a hole or burrow that habitats an animal/s
C
Chamber : an enclosed space that houses animals for the winter
Classification:the action or process of classifying something according to shared qualities or characteristics.
"the classification
Conserving : stopping the waste of valuable resources
Consumers : animals that eat many different types of food
Congregate : to come together
Cavities : a hole in a tree.
D
Deciduous:a tree or a shrub shedding its leaves constantly
Disturbed-affected by a disturbance
Diverse : of several types
Dragonfly Larva: under water creatures that are able to move through water by shooting h2o out of their butts and are able to move through water quickly
Dry Avalanches : dry snow which makes the avalanche travel at a higher speed.
E
Economics-the process or system by which goods and services are produced, sold, and bought in a country or region
Elevations: the height above sea level of where you are.
Epidemic-a temporary prevalence of a disease
F
Foliage-the leaves of a plant
Flourish : developing ; thriving
G
Giardia-A sickness that is caused from water that is not pure
Great Plains: A semiarid region east of the Rocky Mountains, in the U.S. and Canada.
Groundwater: water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock
Greenhouse Gasses : They cause climate change
Global Warming : A term used to describe the increasing temperature of the Earth.
Genetic : anything that allows an animal to do something
H
Hail:pellets of frozen rain that fall in showers from cumulonimbus clouds
Harvested: the season when ripened crops are gathered
Hibernaculum:winter quarters, as of a hibernating animal
I
Infest:to harass
Invade:to spread over or into in a harmful way
J
K
L
Larva:the young of any invertebrate animal.
Lichen:a simple slow-growing plant that typically forms a low crustlike, leaflike, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees
Lodgepole:a pole used (as by the Plains Indians of North America) in the construction of a lodge
M
Margin:a border or edge.
Monogamous : when you have feelings for something and have only one mate
Migrate : move to another place
Marshes : wet--like a swamp
N
Natural Conditions: the way something is without being affected by humans
Nimble : flexible
Nocturnally:an animal that hunts in the night, and sleeps in the day time.
Nutrient:a substance that plants, animals, and people need to live and grow
O
Organisms : Living plants or animals
Overgrazed: graze so heavily that the vegetation cannot keep the soil from eroding.
P
Porous:having minute spaces or holes through which liquid or air may pass
Picea : a genus of temperate and arctic evergreen trees.
Pine seeds:Pine nuts are the edible seeds of pines (family Pinaceae, genus Pinus). About 20 species of pine produce seeds large enough to be worth harvesting; in other pines the seeds are also edible, but are too small to be of notable value as a human food.
Pitch: a natural glue
Photosynthesis : a process used by plants to make food.
Preserve:to keep safe from harm or injury
Prevent: to keep something from happening
R
Runoff:the draining away of water or substances carried in it from the surface of an area of land, a building or structure
Riparian Areas : the bank of a river, stream, lake
Riparian Zone: it is where land and a river/steam meet
Reverence : a feeling or an attitude of deep respect tinged with awe
S
Sapling:a young tree
Severely:to an undesirably great or intense degree
Solitary : existing alone
Sparse:not thick or dense
Species:a particular group of things or people that belong together or have some shared quality
Stout : chunkey or fat
Substantial:of ample or considerable amount
T
Tumbleweed:a plant of dry regions that breaks off near the ground in late summer and is tumbled about by the wind, thereby dispersing its seeds.
V
Variety : a lot of different types of things
W
Weather:Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy
Widespread : everywhere
Wet Avalanches : wet snow which makes the avalanche travel at a slower speed.
