SPICESS
This acronym stands for Space, Place, Interconnection, Change, Environment, Sustainability and Scale.
What is SPICESS?
These are places that share a similar climate and life forms.
What are biomes?
This biome is described as the most diverse ecosystem on Earth.
What is a forest?
This PowerPoint topic focused on mapping biomes around the world.
What is Mapping the world’s biomes?
This type of graph is used to represent rainfall and temperature.
What is a climate graph or climograph?
This geography concept is about where things are located and distributed on Earth’s surface.
What is Space?
Biomes are sometimes referred to by this other term
What are ecosystems?
This biome has low rainfall and includes arid and semi-arid regions.
What is a desert?
This term means the edge of a habitat where trees are able to grow.
What is the treeline?
On a climate graph, temperature is shown using this type of graph.
What is a line graph?
This type of location gives the unique location of a site or geographical feature
What is absolute location?
These are the two categories of biomes.
What is terrestrial and aquatic?
This biome is dominated by grass and may have small, widely spaced trees or no trees at all.
What is a grassland?
Beyond the treeline, trees cannot tolerate these conditions, including low temperatures, extreme snowpack or lack of available moisture.
What are harsh environmental conditions?
On a climate graph, rainfall is shown using this type of graph.
What is a column graph?
This geography concept explains how people, places and things are connected to one another.
What is Interconnection?
These are the five distinct terrestrial or land-based biome types listed in the PowerPoint.
What are forest, desert, grassland, tundra and aquatic biomes?
This cold biome has a short growing season and is characterised by grasses, dwarf shrubs, mosses and lichens.
What is tundra?
This biome is the biome most commonly found in Australia.
What is desert biome?
These three factors affect climate: how far a place is from the equator, mountain ranges, and height above sea level.
What are latitude, landforms and elevation?
This concept is about meeting present needs without stopping future generations from meeting their needs.
What is Sustainability?
These vary within biomes and include the visible landscape, plants and animals adapted to survive in a particular climate.
What are variations within biomes?
This biome can be classified as either freshwater or marine.
What is an aquatic biome?
These two lines split the world into Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western hemispheres.
What is the Prime Meridian and the Equator?
This happens when moisture from oceans cannot pass beyond mountain ranges, creating dry inland areas.
What is a rain shadow?