Terrestrial Biomes
The two main factors used to predict the location of a specific biome
What are temperature and precipitation?
These tiny, free-floating photosynthetic algae support most marine food webs
What is phytoplankton?
The primary difference between a swamp and a marsh
What is trees?
Trees that lose their leaves seasonally
What are deciduous trees?
Term for large biological communities
What are biomes?
This animal is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
This biome is characterized by permanently frozen soil
What is the tundra?
Bays where rivers empty into the sea, mixing fresh and salt water
What are estuaries?
These wetlands are fed primarily by rainfall
What is a bog?
Cone-bearing trees with needle-like leaves
What are coniferous tress?
The number and variety of different species in a community
What is biodiversity?
This "red" planet is the fourth from the sun.
What is Mars?
The greatest historical threat to temperate grasslands
What is conversion to farmland?
Estuaries are often called this because so many organisms use them for breeding
These wetlands are fed by mineral-rich groundwater
What is a fen?
Salt-tolerant trees that grow along warm, calm marine coasts.
What are mangroves?
This term describes vegetation zones defined by altitude
What is vertical zonation?
This mythical creature is the national animal of Scotland.
What is a unicorn?
While they occupy completely different realms, the Tropical Rainforest and the Coral Reef are often compared due to their immense biodiversity. Both are currently threatened by the fluctuation of a single abiotic factor: on land, it is one of the two primary variables used to map terrestrial biomes; in the ocean, its rise causes the symbiotic algae to leave their coral hosts, resulting in "bleaching."
What is Temperature?
This biome has warm temperatures and abundant, steady precipitation year-round
What is the tropical rainforest?
In terms of biodiversity, coral reefs are most comparable to this terrestrial biome.
What is Tropical Rainforests?
Deep layers of undecayed vegetation found in bogs.
What is peat?
These organisms form the basis of the food web in a coral reef
What are photosynthetic organisms (specifically algae/phytoplankton)?
This biome is considered the least threatened because it is so cold
What is the arctic tundra?
This is the only letter in the English alphabet that does not appear in the name of any of the 50 United States.
What is Q?
This biome is found at mid-latitudes with enough rain for grass, but not for forests.
What are temperate grasslands?
Depressions in rocky shorelines that hold water during low tide
What are tide pools?
A continuum of constantly changing conditions from headwaters to mouth
What is a river system?
Waxy needles on conifers help the tree perform this function
What is reduce water loss?
True or False: Biomes vary mainly with longitude.
What is False? They vary with LATITUDE.
This famous 1937 disappearance occurred near Howland Island in the Pacific Ocean during an attempt to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Amelia Earhart?