Flora and Fauna in Biomes
What biome might you find lizards, snakes and owls in?
Desert
What biome in Australia might you find emus and koalas in?
Grasslands.
What biome is characterised by a large, flat area that has a few scattered trees?
Grasslands.
What is a climate graph?
A graph that shows the temperature and the precipitation (in mm) for one place in a year.
What is the name of the flat lines that run around the Earth used for measurement?
Latitude.
What biome might you find a Barrel Cacti in?
Desert.
What state will you find rainforests in, in Australia?
Queensland.
Do trees grow in tundra biomes?
No.
On a climate graph, what is the temperature measured in?
Both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Both/either.
True or False?
Latitude affects climate. Places near the equator are usually hotter than places near the poles.
True.
How do bilbies and reptiles survive the heat in a desert?
They burrow underground
What biome in Australia will you find closed canopies of tree crowns?
Rainforest.
What is the ground made of in a tundra?
Ice - It is permanently frozen.
True or False?
On a climate graph the precipitation is always measured in cm.
False. It is always measured in mm.
What degrees of latitude is at the equator?
What Biome might you find a Bengal Tiger in?
Forest.
In a dry sclerophyll forest, why are the trees smaller and more separated? What does this do for the plants such as banksias and grevilleas that are in the understory?
It allows the sunlight to reach them.
What biome averages around 18 degrees Celsius?
Desert.
If a climate graph has two temperature lines, what do they show?
Average maximum temperature and average minimum temperature.
Name three different types of freshwater biomes.
Half points if you can name two.
Ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, wetlands.
Name two animals you might find in a tundra biome.
polar bears, arctic foxes, grizzly bears, wolverines, arctic hare, snowy owl, seals, walruses.
How much rainfall does a rainforest in Northern Queensland receive on average each year? Points if you are within 100mm.
1200mm - 1500mm
How much of the Earth's surface do aquatic biomes make up?
Receive points if you are within 10% + or -
75%
Come up to the board and draw the features of a climate graph.
Points if you have at least 4/6 features correct.
Title up the top.
Rainfall- in mm on the left side.
Precipitation- bar graph at the bottom.
Months- down the bottom.
Temperature- either Celsius or Fahrenheit on the right side.
Temperature line graph.
Describe what climate is.
The long-term weather patterns of a place.