What are Biomes?
This is a biome.
What is a large scale ecosystem?
It is very warm and wet because it rains almost every day.
What is the climate of the tropical rainforest?
Name two areas this biome is found.
What are the southwest of the United States, parts of South America, the Northern part of Africa, the Middle East, Australia.
Name two areas where this biome is found.
Very northern parts of Canada, Russia, Alaska, Greenland.
Name the 3 types of water ecosystems.
What are freshwater, saltwater, and brackish-water ecosystems (estuaries)?
A region in which yearly patterns of temperature, rainfall, and the amount of sunlight are similar throughout.
What is a climate zone?
Most rainforests are found near here.
What is the equator?
Describe the climate in the desert biome.
What is very dry and hot, and cold at night?
Describe the climate of the tundra.
What is low temperatures and long winters?
Name the 3 zones of saltwater ecosystems.
What are intertidal zone, near-shore zone, and open-ocean zone?
This biome is found in dry areas in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.
What is a desert biome?
Direct sunlight, warmth, heavy rainfall. What do these create in the rainforest?
What are the factors that contribute to the diversity of plant and animal life in the tropical rainforest?
Desert organisms have this to help them conserve water and live in the desert environment.
What are adaptations?
Name the layer of permanently frozen soil below the surface,
What is permafrost?
Name 3 types of water environments that are freshwater ecosystems.
What is a lake, pond, stream, river, marsh, swamp?
This is what makes one biome different from another.
What is climate?
Name two animals in the tropical rainforest.
What are reptiles, insects, varieties of birds and fish?
Name two animals found in the desert.
What are reptiles, snakes, lizards, small mammals.
Name two animals found here.
What are the grizzly bear, ox, caribou, birds, arctic hare?
Explain the adaptation that estuary organisms must have.
What is the adaptation to survive in both fresh water and salt water?
Wind patterns, landforms, and closeness to large bodies of water.
What is how climate zones are determined?
Name two plants in the tropical rainforest.
What are vines, orchids, ferns?
Name two plants in the desert.
What are cactus, creosote, mesquite?
Describe the plants of the tundra.
What are small, flowering plants?
Explain how estuaries are important for land and sea.
For land: What is coastal flooding and erosion?
For sea: What is a safe haven for migrating animals and birds?