Biomes Basics
This is a large region with a similar climate, plants, and animals.
What is a biome?
This biome receives very little precipitation
What is a desert?
This biome is warm and receives abundant rainfall.
What is a tropical rainforest?
This biome is known for very cold temperatures and permafrost.
What is the tundra?
These organisms make their own food, usually using sunlight.
What are producers?
This describes living and nonliving things interacting in an environment
What is an ecosystem?
This plant stores water and is common in many deserts
What is a cactus?
These tall plants create layers and provide homes for many animals.
What are trees?
This cold biome has many cone-bearing trees, such as pine and spruce.
What is the taiga?
These organisms get energy by eating plants or other animals.
What are consumers?
These two climate factors strongly influence which biome forms in an area.
Desert animals may be active at night to avoid this daytime condition
What is extreme heat?
This is the process plants use to make food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This is ground that stays frozen for at least two consecutive years
What is permafrost?
This shows how energy moves from one organism to another in a feeding relationship
What is a food chain?
This word means the variety of living things in an area.
What is biodiversity?
This is one way a desert animal can conserve water it produces very little of this waste.
What is urine?
Cutting down large areas of forest is called this.
What is deforestation?
This Arctic animal has thick fur and a lay of fat to help it stay warm.
What is a polar bear?
A network of connected food chains is called this.
What is a food web?
These are features or behaviors that help organisms survive.
What are adaptations?
What is false? Some deserts are cold.
Losing trees can cause animals to lose these two essentials
What are habitats and food sources?
These plants, such as mosses and lichens, can grow in the tundra where trees are scarce.
What are low-growing plants?
If one important species disappears, this may happen to the balance of the ecosystem.
What is disruption? The ecosystem may become unbalanced?