Location
This humid biome is located between the tropics and along the equator and is home to the most numerous types of plants and animals.
What is the Amazon, or a tropical rain forest?
This biome has a great deal of rain with cooler temperatures and is found in the United Kingdom.
What are the Moorlands?
What ecosystem occurs around the coast line of Florida?
What are the mangroves? (swamp or forest okay too)
This biome is located in the far north but does not get much snow.
What is the taiga, or tundra?
Can receive less than 3 inches of rain per year with the amount of evaporation being greater than the precipitation.
What is a desert biome?
This biome is near the poles; it is extremely cold in the long winter and hot in the short summer.
What is taiga?
Gila monsters, snakes, and other reptiles live here in this extreme biome.
What is a desert?
Plants in this biome grow in 4 distinct layers: canopy, emergent layer, understory and floor.
What is the Amazon, or a tropical rain forest?
Usually gets 10-30 inches of rain. Fires and droughts are common.
What is a grassland?
The main factor in an area that determines it's biome.
What is climate?
This biome has much diversity and trees that lose their leaves in winter.
What is a deciduous forest, or temperate forest, or forests with broadleaf trees?
Plants are called what on a trophic level diagram?
What are producers?
On a tall mountain, climate changes as you go up. Does precipitation come as snow, or rain at the summit?
What is snow?
Animals cannot make food. They are either _____ or ________ consumers.
What is primary, secondary, or tertiary (or quaternary)?