Biomes 1
In what ecosystem must plants be able to conserve water for long periods of time?
What is desert?
Why do tropical rainforests always have warm temperatures?
They are near the Equator
Which terrestrial ecosystem has cold and dry conditions and permafrost soil?
What is tundra?
What is the hottest biome?
Plants
What is biotic?
What Ecosystem does the following sentence describe:
An inland water environment with living organisms and nonliving parts
What is freshwater ecosystem?
Most desert animals are active at this time of day.
What is nighttime (nocturnal)?
This grassy biome is home to animals like bison, prairie dogs, and grasshoppers.
What is Grasslands?
What is the coldest biome on earth?
What is tundra?
Sunlight
What is abiotic?
What type of ecosystem contains the largest mammals?
What is ocean?
Forest ecosystems receive _______ precipitation than grassland ecosystems.
What is more?
This cold and treeless biome has frozen soil called permafrost and is home to animals like caribou and Arctic foxes.
What is tundra?
If you are walking through a forest and saw coniferous trees, a moose, and a lynx. What type of biome are you most likely visiting?
What is Taiga?
Soil or sand
What is abiotic?
This layer of the rainforest gets the most sunlight and houses many animals.
What is the canopy?
Which type of ecosystem can be found in the MOUNTAIN region of North Carolina?
What is deciduous forest?
Which is a difference between abiotic and biotic factors?
Abiotic factors are all nonliving things and biotic factors are all living things.
How are a saltwater marsh and a freshwater lake similar?
They both have a wide variety of organisms.
Decomposers
What is biotic?
Rainforests get over this many inches of rain each year.
What is 80 inches (or more)?
What type of ecosystem removes pollutants from the water?
What is estuary?
Which two ecosystems are terrestrial?
What is tundra and grasslands?
Name at least 5 different biomes
What is Tropical Rainforest, Temperate Forest, Desert, Tundra, Taiga, Savanna, Freshwater Biomes, Grasslands
Water
What is abiotic?