Climate
Benefits
Symbiotic Relations
Animals
Facts
100
Does it snow?
Yes
100
Why do we need the Taiga?
The Earth gets most of its natural water from the taiga's glaciers melting.
100
What is symbiosis?
What is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two or more different species.
100
America's national animal
What is the bald eagle
100
What countries have the Taiga?
Canada and Scandinavia
200
How low do the winter temperatures get?
What is below -76 degrees.
200
The Taiga is Russian for a belt of forests, but it is slowly becoming smaller due to humans cutting down the trees. What are people cutting down the trees for?
Paper and other tree related products.
200
The relationship between big predator and smaller prey
What is predation?
200
What invasive species came from south america? hint: we had to watch a video on this animal for our wiki spaces blog project.
What is the nutria.
200
What are the continents that the Taiga are found on?
North America and Asia.
300
What is the average weather like?
What is cold, dry, or snowy.
300
The Taiga has many bodies of water during the summer when all the snow melts. More water means more fish. How can humans benefit from that?
They can fish for food or for fun.
300
name the symbiotic relationship lichen and a black spruce tree
What is mutualism
300
What big cats live in the Taiga?
Lynx & Bobcats
300
What other biome is the taiga located under?
The tundra
400
How hot does the summer temperatures get?
It can be up to 104 degrees and higher.
400
What is waterlogging?
It is the saturation of the soil by groundwater sufficient to prevent agriculture from growing.
400
What was the example of commensalism we had in our powerpoint?
What is the relationship between the raven and the pine tree
400
The biodiversity of the Taiga
It can range from a lynx to a nutria
400
What hemisphere is the taiga in?
The Northern hemisphere
500
What do the plants and animals use snow for in the winter?
What is insulation?
500
2 part question What does parasitism mean? What was the parasitism example in our powerpoint?
It means a parasite hosts an organism, one organism benefits and the other is harmed. Brain worms and Caribou
500
What lives on a rock that does not have arms, legs, or eyes?
What is a lichen?
500
50 degrees North
What is the Taiga's lattitude.
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