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Just the facts
100
This humid biome is located between the Tropics and along the equator and is home to the most numerous types of plants and animals.
What is a tropical rain forest?
100

A living thing

What is an organism?

100
Coniferous trees are the main plant of this biome.
What is boreal, taiga or coniferous forest?
100
This biome has a great deal of rain with cooler temperatures and is found in Oregon.
What is a temperate forest?
100

What are the 3 climate zones?

What is polar, temperate, and tropical?

200
This biome is located in the far north but does not get much snow.
What is tundra?
200

Which biome has elephants, giraffes and zebra live here in Africa.

What is a savannah?

200

Grass and small shrubs dominate this biome region.

What is a chaparral?

200
Receives less than 25 centimeters of rain per year with the amount of evaporation being greater than the precipitation.
What is a desert biome?
200

All parts of earth where life exists.

What is the biosphere?

300
This biome is found in Canada and is also called taiga.
What is boreal or coniferous forest?
300
Living and non-living factors make up the environment. Animals are part of the living things and are
What is biotic?
300
A saguaro cactus is one of the few plants that can survive the extremes of this region.
What is a desert?
300
This biome is extremely cold and dry and receives the same amount of precipitation as a desert.
What is tundra?
300
Rainfall, snow or hail
What is precipitation?
400

This biome is found in the middle latitudes of Africa and is home to the largest animals on Earth.

What is grassland or savanna?

400
Gila monsters and other reptiles live here in this extreme biome.
What is a desert?
400
Plants in this biome grow in 4 distinct layers: canopy, emergent layer, understory and floor.
What is a tropical rain forest?
400

Usually gets 25-75 centimeters of rain. Fires and droughts are common.

What is a grassland?

400
The main factor in an area that determines it's biome.
What is climate?
500
This biome has much diversity and trees that lose their leaves in winter.
What is deciduous forest?
500

What is the microscopic organism found in marine ecosystem?

What is plankton?

500
Plants can photosynthesize and are called what?
What is an autotroph?
500

Where does freshwater and saltwater mix?

What is estuary?

500

What causes the seasons?

What is the 23.5° angle of the earth?