Define It
What is a rainforest?
Forests in equatorial regions with dense vegetation and huge evergreen tree species.
What is the climate in a hot desert?
Large thermal range, high average temperatures, and little precipitation.
Which landscape has more biodiversity than all other landscapes of the world?
The rainforest
What landscape contains poison dart frogs, anacondas, toucans, and monkeys?
Rainforest
What is hibernation?
When some mammals sleep throughout the winter.
What is biodiversity?
It is the variety of flora and fauna in a place.
What is the climate in the rainforest?
Equatorial climate with high temperatures and regular rainfall throughout the year.
Which landscape includes shrubs and trees that can absorb salt water?
Mangroves
What landscape contains insects, spiders, scorpions, thorny devils, vipers, owls, and gazelles.
Hot Desert
What is an example of a crustacean?
Crab or Lobster
What is a deciduous forest?
It is a forest with tree species which lose their leaves in autumn.
What is the climate in the savannah?
Dry tropical climate with high temperatures throughout the year and rainfall concentrated in the summer.
The flat-top acacia tree and the baobab tree are found in these landscapes.
The Savannah
What landscape has wildebeest, gazelles, lions, hyenas, vultures, cheetahs, leopards, rhinos, and elephants.
Savannah
What do you call a type of forest with lots of moisture because the clouds are at canopy level?
Cloud Forest
What is scrubland?
Treeless area of land with shrubs and bushes.
What is the climate in the high mountains?
Cold; temperatures decrease with altitude and precipitation increases with altitude.
Contains shrubs, grass, and moss.
High Mountain landscapes
What landscape has fish, crustaceans, birds.
Mangroves
What are the three types of tropical climates?
Wet tropical climates, dry tropical climates, and monsoon climates.
What is a xerophyte?
A plant adapted to climates with long dry periods.
What is the climate in the taiga?
Continental climate; hot summers and very cold winters, particularly towards the cold zone.
Evergreen oak trees are common in these forests, such as holm oaks and cork oaks.
Mediterranean forests.
What two landscapes contain types of eagles and vultures?
High Mountains and Mediterranean Forests
What is an oasis?
An area in a desert with access to water, usually from an aquifer.