Biomes
Animals
Climate
Volcanoes
Landforms
100
forest floor, canopy, understory, emergent layer
What are the four layers of the rainforest?
100
temperature,rainfall,amount of sunlight,type of soil
What are the four physical conditions biomes share?
100
cinder cone, shield,composite
What are the three kinds of volcanoes?
100
mountains
What landforms towers over the surrounding land?
200
Desert
What is the biome which is very hot and dry?
200
Poison Arrow Frog
What is the rainforest animal that is only an inch long but is very deadly?
200
they receive more sunlight
Why do areas near the equator receive more sunlight?
200
plate movement
What causes volcanic eruptions and earthquakes?
200
Hills
What landform is smaller than mountains but bigger than other landforms?
300
Sloth
What is the animal that spends its entire life in the top trees of the rainforest?
300
Coyote
What animal is found in the grasslands?
300
wind and water
What are the two things that can move sand?
300
inner core, outer core, crust mantle
What are the four layers of the Earth?
300
topography
What is the climate in a certain area called?
400
Moose
What is an animal found in the taiga?
400
Caribou
What is an animal found in the tundra?
400
dry
What does land have to be to be considered a desert?
400
Richter Scale
What is the instrument used to measure earthquakes?
400
peninsula
What is the landform that is surrounded by water on three sides?
500
canopy
What is the layer of the rainforest that the sloth lives in?
500
Army ants
What are the insects found in the rainforest that kill other insects by swarming over them?
500
how far it is from a large body of water and the direction the wind usually blows
What two factors determine how much precipitation a biome receives?
500
magma
What is molten rock called?
500
buttresses
What is the name for the root system found on trees in the rainforest that support the tree?
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