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Aquatic Biomes
Terrestrial Biomes
Aquatic and Terrestrial Biomes
Misc.
Misc.
100
This aquatic biome has low chemical variability and a high D/O content near the surface. There is a high variability of surface currents and pressure increases with depth. It has low biodiversity, decreasing even more with depth. It has phytoplankton.
What is Open Ocean?
100
This terrestrial biome is cold, dry, and windy and can be found in the arctic or on mountain tops. It is treeless and flat, and the ground is covered in permafrost. It has low biodiversity and is home to lichen and caribou.
What is Tundra?
100
This terrestrial biome has heavy rainfall and is close to the Equator. It has nutrient-poor soil. It has very high biodiversity, including many generalists and specialists, but low species richness. Its broad-leafed, evergreen trees do a lot of transpiration. Monkeys live there.
What is Tropical Rain Forest?
100
A type of coniferous forest located in North America, Europe, and Asia that has extreme seasonal temperatures
What is Boreal/Taiga?
100
The type of trees in Deciduous forests
What are broad-leafed hardwood trees?
200
This aquatic biome, which is sometimes found on the edges of shallow coasts, has highly variable pH and salinity levels. It accumulates nutrients as well as toxins. It has a low dissolved oxygen content but the highest primary productivity of all aquatic biomes. It has high biodiversity, including green algae and worms. The substrate type is mud, clay, and silt.
What are Estuaries?
200
This terrestrial biome is usually found on the west side of a mountain rage at 30E latitude. The soil is poor. It is very hot in the summer during the day. It has low biodiversity, mainly specialists. Its plants are thin-leafed succulents.
What is Desert?
200
This terrestrial biome, located in the southern hemisphere, has wet winters and is very dry seasonally (prone to droughts). The soil is rich. It has very high biodiversity and species richness. Its plants have deep roots.
What is Savannah (Tropical Grassland)?
200
It makes up most of the central part of the United States.
What is Temperate Grassland?
200
The layer of the tropical rainforest where you would expect to find relatively open space free of vegetation
What is the forest floor?
300
This tropical aquatic biome has low chemical variability, which explains its species' low range of tolerance. It has the highest biodiversity of all aquatic biomes, and one of its species is zooxanthelae. Upwelling occurs, and there are moderate dissolved oxygen levels.
What is Coral Reef?
300
This terrestrial biome has wet, cold winters and mild, dry summers. It has the poorest soil of all biomes due to nutrient leaching and low pH levels. The vegetation is evergreen, so there is no leaf-drop. It can be found in the far North, far South, or at high altitudes. It has low-medium biodiversity, including bears. Its species are highly adapted.
What is Coniferous Forest?
300
This terrestrial biome is found on the interior of continents on flat terrain surrounded by mountains. It has the richest soil of all terrestrial biomes. Its extreme temperatures cause periodic droughts and fires. There is high species richness and medium biodiversity.
What is Temperate Grassland?
300
The second shallowest of the four zones in the open ocean
What is the mesopelagic zone?
300
Contains 10% of the ocean's plant and animal life
What is the open ocean?
400
This aquatic biome has variable temperature, currents, and chemical factors; its substrate type is sand; and it has a small range of tolerance and low biodiversity. It is home to phytoplankton and has very limited vegetation.
What is Sandy Beach?
400
This coastal terrestrial biome is fire dependent. Its plants have needle-like leaves and extensive root systems. Its soil is of medium richness.
What is Chaparral?
400
This aquatic biome has upwelling and moderate D/O levels. It is found in temperate, near-shore waters. It has a mostly rocky bottom, and these rocks are covered with encrusting organisms. It has high biodiversity, including green algae in shallow parts.
What is Kelp Forest?
400
Sea otters are a keystone species here.
What is Kelp Forest?
400
Drilling for oil, building buildings, erosion, draining underground water sources, and pollution from motorcycles and off-road vehicles driving through it
What are the human impacts on Deserts?
500
This aquatic biome has highly variable pH and salinity levels as well as a high dissolved oxygen content. Its organisms have a large range of tolerance. It has tidepools and is vulnerable to erosion.
What is Rocky Intertidal?
500
It has moderate precipitation and temperatures change seasonally. The soil is rich and is over non-porous granite. It has medium-high biodiversity, including broad-leafed plants and deer.
What is Deciduous Forest?
500
This terrestrial biome can be found on the Northwest coast of North America, in Chile, in New Zealand, and in Australia. It's 20 degrees Celsius year-round. Mosses and ferns grow on top of each other to reach the sunlight.
What is Temperate Rainforest?
500
Clear-cutting for lumber for power and building, hunting predators, large-scale mining, using oil and natural gas reserves, and pollution
What are the human impacts on coniferous forests?
500
Over-hunting of certain animals, such as the black abalone; use organisms for bait, food, and in home aquariums; pollution
What are the human impacts on the Rocky Intertidal Zone?