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What is fruit?
The part of the plant that grows around the seeds.
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What is a habitat with very little rain?
The definition of a desert.
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What is a habitat full of trees located near the equator?
The definition of a tropical rain forest. (You must tell me where it is found.)
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What is permafrost?
The layer of frozen soil that never melts.
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What is pollution?
Things like trash that are harmful to the environment.
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What is germination?
The process of the seed beginning to grow into a plant.
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What is a habitat covered in grasses and maybe a few trees?
The definition of a grassland.
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What is a temperate forest?
The type of forest I would find in South Carolina.
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What is growing in shallow water and having no roots?
The two adaptations of ocean plants that help them get sunlight.
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What is a drought?
A long period of time with little or no rain.
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What are spores?
The way plants such as ferns reproduce since they do not have seeds.
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What are thorns or spines?
The plant adaptation that protects desert plants from animals.
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What are waxy needle like leaves?
The adaptation that helps conifers save energy during the winter.
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What is above the Arctic Circle?
The place where the Arctic Tundra is found. (Above the ________)
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What are natural disasters?
A flood, a drought, a wildfire, an earthquake, a volcano, or a storm.
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What are wind, animals, and rotting fruit that falls to the ground?
The three ways that seeds are spread.
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What are waxy skin and thick trunks?
The two adaptations that help desert plants conserve (keep) water.
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What are large leaves?
The adaptation that helps plants on the floor of the rain forest get sunlight.
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What are air bladders?
The adaptation that helps some ocean plants float.
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What is competition?
When plants struggle to all get the same resources.
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What is a life cycle?
The way a plant grows from a seed, lives as an adult plant, and reproduces to make new plants.
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What are special bark and long roots?
The two adaptations that protect grassland plants from fire.
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What is that a tropical rain forest has less humus in the soil than a temperate forest?
The difference between soil in a tropical rain forest and in a temperate forest.
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What are growing close together and being short?
The two adaptations that protect Arctic plants from cold and wind.
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What is cutting down trees, constructing buildings, planting trees, growing a garden, pollution, etc.?
Three ways that humans change the environment.
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