Climate around the world
Describe the term weather.
Temperatures and weather conditions over a short time.
What do plants need to grow, name three.
Light, heat and water.
What is a hot desert?
Where the average rainfall is less than 120 mm
Discuss the term conifer.
a Tree that stays green all through the year, has narrow leaves like needles, and produces hard brown fruit called cones.
Name a animal from the tropical rainforest.
Gorilla, butterfly, giant centipede, ring tailed lemur, chameleon
Describe the term climate.
Weather conditions over a long period of time.
What do plants provide for animals?
Food and shelter/homes.
Discuss the climate of hot deserts.
The small amount of rainfall.
Discuss the term hibernate.
when animals in very cold places go to sleep for the whole winter.
Who are the two people that lives in hot deserts?
The San and Taureg.
What season does Europe have in July.
Summer
Where are tropical rainforests located?
Either side of the equator. Between the tropic of cancer and Capricorn.
How does the animals get water in these deserts?
They get it from the moisture in plants.
Name a conifer tree.
Pine tree.
What is a nomad?
People that travel from place to place and have no fixed home.
Discuss the term annual rainfall. And give the unit it is measured in.
The amount of rain that falls in a year. Millimeters.
Discuss the climate of these forests.
It is very hot, wet with no dry season.
How doe plants survive in the Namib desert?
Fog/moisture from the Atlantic ocean.
What do they use the trees in coniferous forests for?
Timber like furniture and flooring but mostly paper.
Name the four layers of the trees in the rainforests.
Emergent layer, canopy layer, understory layer and forest floor.
Give the term for the term for the following: a part of a country or the world.
Region.
What does the word natural vegetation mean.
Plants that naturally grow in an area.
Name a plant that grows here naturally.
Quiver, Euphorbia, Welwitschia, Nara.
Why are these leaves shaped the way they are with the waxy substance?
It is to keep the moisture in.
What is deforestation and what is the type of trees that is being cut down.
It is when tree are cut down for timber and are never replaced. The trees are teak, ebony and mahogany.