Terrestrial Biomes
The coldest biome is ______.
What is the tundra?
In the desert, many organisms have spikes and spines? Why?
What is for self protection and to protect their water store?
This aquatic biome is home to lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and most wetlands.
What is the freshwater biome?
What are the two physical changes?
What is turbidity and temperature?
This model shows the transfer of energy between trophic levels.
What is a food chain?
This biome has animals such as bald eagles, evergreen trees, bears, bogs and lakes, and wolves.
What is the taiga?
In the taiga, there are several ______ trees. What is so special about these trees that help them adapt to the colder and snowier environment?
What is evergreen, and they need to have slanted branches to allow snow to fall off so the branches do not break?
Saltwater biomes are home to ________ & ________.
What is oceans and estuaries?
How does higher turbidity harm the fish and other aquatic organisms?
What is it will clog up the fish gills limiting their access to oxygen?
Which trophic level has the highest amount of energy?
What is primary producers?
This biome can have extreme cold OR extreme hot temperatures. Drought is common.
What is the desert?
In the tundra, several organisms are surviving very long and harsh winters. What is the additional layer on their body called? What does it do?
What is blubber, and insulate (hold in) heat?
Rivers and streams differ to ponds and lakes. What key difference do they have?
What is rivers and streams are moving and ponds and lakes are stagnant?
How does temperature affect the dissolved oxygen levels?
What is higher temperatures lower the dissolved oxygen?
Invasive species can harm humans. How?
This biome has very few places for animals to hide. Speed or camouflage are a necessity for the animals to survive.
What is the grassland biome?
In the grasslands, animals tend to be two colors. What are the colors? Animals in the grasslands are also the ____ in the world.
What is green and brown, and fastest?
What is the ocean?
What is acidic and it is bleaching the coral reefs?
What is an endemic species?
What is a species found in only one part of the world?
This biome has the highest level of _______, with several plant and animal species. This biome also has several layers to it, making sunlight a rare sight for the lower levels. This biome is the ________.
What is biodiversity, tropical rainforest?
In the deciduous forest, many animals _____ every winter. The trees also lose their ______ every winter. This is so they can store what two things?
What is hibernate, leaves, water, and energy?
Explain how salt is different in each part of an estuary?
How does too much oxygen in a body of water such as a lake, river, or pond harm the organisms?
What is it puts bubbles in their blood?
In a food web, a lizard is food to the apex predator and a predator to the primary consumers. Explain what would happen if we lost the lizard. This lizard is likely a _____ species.
What is it would make the apex predator starve and would cause the primary consumers to overpopulate and eventually starve, and keystone?