Terrestrial Biomes
Terrestrial Biomes II
Aquatic Biomes
Hierarchy of Life
2 More Aquatic Biomes and Climate
Sun -> Plants -> Animals
Chains, Webs, and Pyramids, Oh My
Vocab
Disney!
100
This biome is located between the tropics, is characterized by a hot dry climate, and practically no precipitation.
What is Desert?
100
This biome is located around 50º N/S, with temperatures in both extreme ranges, and grasses being the dominant vegitation.
What is Temperate Grassland?
100
This biome has highly diverse life and are stagnant/still freshwater pools or ponds. There is a wide temperature range as well as a large variety of fish and microscopic life.
What are Lakes?
100
This level emphasizes energy flow and chemical cycling between organisms and the environment
What is Ecosystem Ecology?
100
These are long-term prevailing weather conditions in an area
What is Climate?
100
This type of organism feeds only on plants
What is a Herbivore?
100
This is the name for the model that shows the interlocking feeding relationships between organisms on different trophic levels.
What is a Food Web?
100
This is what the term Biotic means.
What is Living?
100
Disney acquired this company for $4 billion dollars in 2009
What is Marvel Entertainment?
200
This biome is found at all latitudes, has high winds and low temperatures. Most of the plants are short mosses, grasses, and shrubs. The animals are primarily hoofed herbivores.
What is Tundra?
200
This biome is located on the poles of the Earth and is windy and barren. The temperature rarely if ever rises above 0ºC. The only plant life if microscopic algae and the animals are carnivorous.
What is Polar Ice?
200
This biome is where saltwater meets freshwater and is one of the most fertile biomes on Earth. Flora include tall salt-loving plants and fauna include diverse crabs, birds, and fish.
What are Wetlands/Estuaries?
200
This level is concerned with the global ecosystem which is the sum of all the planet’s ecosystems and landscapes
What is Biosphere Ecology?
200
This biome is open water that is not connected with the shore or bottom of the ocean. It is the largest biome on earth with fauna including sharks, whales, diverse fish, etc. and fauna composed of phytoplankton and algae.
What is the Oceanic Pelagic Zone?
200
This is the original source of ALL energy in an Ecosystem.
What is the Sun?
200
The Grasshopper in the Food Chain below would be known as this:
Herbivore
Heterotroph
200
This is what the term Abiotic means.
What is Non-Living?
200
This was the first Disney cartoon that used mickey mouse as well as voice acting
What is Steamboat Willie?
300
This biome is located between the polar regions and the tropics. It is characterized by having mild temperatures and moderate rain. Plant life is composed of tall trees and a short underbrush. Animals are mostly small and large mammals with migratory birds.
What is Temperate Broadleaf Forest?
300
This biome is characterized by being situated near the equator, having very high temperatures, and abundant rainfall.
What is Tropical Forest or Tropical Rain Forest?
300
This biome is exposed to air at low tides and is submerged at high tides. There is very high salinity and fauna includes a large number of invertebrates while flora include abundant kelp forests, sea grasses, and algae.
What are Intertidal Zones?
300
This level considers factors affecting population size over time
What is Population Ecology?
300
This biome is found on the fringes of the ocean near shore and could be called the rainforests of the ocean. They are extremely diverse with fauna including corals, fish, invertebrates, sharks, rays, etc. and flora including zooxanthellae, alga's, and seagrasses.
What are Coral Reefs?
300
This is a general term for organisms that get their food from eating other organisms.
What is a Consumer or HETEROTROPH?
300
This is the amount of energy transferred between the levels of a Trophic Pyramid.
What is 10%?
300
This is what the term Species Richness means.
The number of species in an area.
300
This was the first full-length Disney film
What is Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?
400
This biome is found between the tropics, has high temperatures, and notable wet and dry seasons.
What is the Savanna?
400
This biome spans across latitudes above 45º N. Characterized by short, cool summers and long, cold winters with abundant precipitation.
What is Northern Coniferous Forest?
400
This biome has freshwater sources that start at higher locations and cooler climates that their mouths. They are highly diverse in both flora and fauna and are constantly changing due to erosion.
What are Streams and Rivers?
400
This level focuses on the factors controlling exchanges of energy, materials, and organisms across multiple
ecosystems
What is Biome Ecology?
400
This is caused by the tilt of Earth’s axis and annual passage around the sun
What are Seasons or Seasonality?
400
This is a general term for organisms that can make their own food.
What it a Producer or an AUTOTROPH?
400
Identify a Tertiary Consumer from the Food Web below:
Great Blue Heron
Large Mouth Bass
Green Sunfish
Little Timmy
400
This is what the term Relative Abundance means.
What is the number of a certain species in an area?
400
Walt Disney World Park is approximately the same size as this American city.
What is San Francisco?
500
This biome is known for its high elevation, cold temperatures, and low oxygen levels. Flora is sparse and fauna is composed of smaller mammals.
What are High Mountains?
500
This biome is very hilly and rocky, located at midlatitudes, with hot/dry summers and mild/wet winters.
What is Chaparral?
500
This biome exists at depths of 2,000 meters or more and stays in complete darkness. This biome is highly unexplored due to tremendous pressure and low oxygen levels.
What is the Marine Benthic Zone?
500
This level considers how interactions between species affect community structure and organization
What is Community Ecology?
500
These are the four major components of climate
What is: temperature, precipitation, sunlight, and wind
500
This type of organism breaks down dead/decaying materials.
What are Decomposers or DETRITIVORES.
500
A snake that eats a frog that has eaten an insect that fed on a plant would be known as this.
What is a Tertiary Consumer?
Plant = Producer
Insect = Primary Consumer (Herbivore)
Frog = Secondary Consumer (Carnivore/Insectivore)
Snake = Tertiary Consumer (Carnivore)
500
These are the two things that dictate or define a Biome.
What is Climate and the Animals/Plants living there?
500
This is how old Walt Disney was when he died.
What is 65 years old.