Vocab Section:4
What are Biomes?
Large regions, each characterized by certain types of climate.
What are the types of forests?
Tropical Rain forest, Temperate Deciduous forest, Evergreen coniferous forest, and the Arctic tundra.
How much water covers the Earth?
About 90% of earths surface is covered with water.
How much land does a forest take up?
around 31% of land is taken up by forests.
What would Las Vegas be part of?
Las Vegas would be part of the desert.
What is a Desert?
It has vary little vegetation and the sun is always beating down on the hot desert ground.
What are the different types of grasslands?
Savanna, Chaparral, and the Arctic Tundra.
How much fresh water is there on the earth?
There is about 2.5% of fresh water on earth.
How much grass land takes up earth?
About 40% of land is grasslands.
Which ecosystems is the most important?
Marine systems provide a number of important ecosystems.
What is a grassland?
They have seasonal drought.
What are the different types of deserts?
Tropical desert, Temperate desert, cold desert, and the Arctic Tundra.
How much of earth is covered with ice?
About 10% is covered by ice.
How much of land is taken up by desert?
About 33% of land is desert.
Do humans impacted the World a lot.
Yes, human activity has a major impact on the worlds lands and water.
What is a Forest?
It is a place that's over loaded with tress, plants, and other little creches.
Where are the most coldest forests found?
They are found in the northernmost regions of North America, Asia, and Europe.
How much water doe the average person drink a day?
Humans drink about 2 liters.
How much forest have they cut down?
They have cut down around 46% of the forests.
How do deep lake's zones compere to depth zones in the ocean?
Distinct zones of life in a fairly deep temperate zone lake.
What are mountains?
It's steep or high elevation land that cover about 1/4 of earths surface.
Why are Mountains important?
They contain a majority of the worlds forests.
How much of the worlds water is salty?
About 97% of water is salt water.
How much living people can the earth hold?
They can hold about 1.5 billion people.
Why do you think we don't have much fresh water?
It's because we are pollution all waters so there is less fresh water for us to drink.