Deserts
Forests
Rainforest
Water
Tundra and Grasslands
100
An area of land where very little or no precipitation, such as rain or snow, falls.
What is a desert?
100
The number of main types of forests.
What is three?
100
A dense, steamy forest that grows in tropical countries where it is hot all the time.
What is a rainforest?
100
The two types of water biomes.
What are ocean (marine) and freshwater?
100
Lands where snow and ice cover the ground all winter, and only the surface ice melts in the summer.
What is the tundra?
200
The amount of precipitation that a desert region gets per year.
What is less than 10 inches (25cm)?
200
A type of forest found in North America, Europe, Asia, and two areas in South America that contains trees that shed their leaves in response to seasonal changes.
What is a deciduous forest?
200
The imaginary latitudinal line around the globe that separates the northern and southern hemispheres where rainforests are found near.
What is the equator?
200
The percentage of water on Earth contained by seas and oceans.
What is 97%?
200
The permanently frozen ground that lies beneath the topsoil in very cold places.
What is permafrost?
300
The world's largest desert.
What is the Sahara?
300
Three animals that live in deciduous forests.
What are black bears, weasels, squirrels, mice, owls, rabbits, snakes, raccoons, deer, foxes, bobcats...?
300
The approximate amount of rain a rainforest receives each year.
What is 60 to 160 inches (5-13 feet)
300
The rainforests of the sea.
What are coral reefs?
300
An area that is covered with mainly grass and shrubs.
What is grassland?
400
A desert plant of North America that stores water in its thick, fleshy stem.
What is a cactus?
400
Forest made up of trees with green, needle-shaped leaves (also known as evergreen trees).
What is a coniferous forest?
400
Three types animals that live in the rainforest.
What are birds, monkeys, snakes, insects, cats, lizards, frogs...?
400
Marshes and swamps are in this category of water biome.
What are wetlands?
400
The two types of grasslands.
What are savannahs and prairies?
500
Three animals that inhabit the desert.
What are kangaroos, foxes, wood rats, lizards, insects, jackrabbits, coyotes, scorpions, rattlenake, bats, tarantulas, mountain lions, owls...? (In cold desert, seabirds, seals, penguins, polar bears, seals, etc.)
500
The largest forest in the world that grows across northern Russia with cold and long winters.
What is the Taiga?
500
The three layers of the rainforest.
What are the forest floor, understory, and canopy?
500
The water biome filled with water that isn't salty.
What is freshwater?
500
Three types of animals on the prairie grasslands.
What are prairie dogs, bison, deer, badgers, skunks, buffalo, coyotes...?
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