Biomes
The biome near the Equator that receives abundant rainfall.
What is the tropical rainforest?
The largest marine biome.
What is the ocean?
A law enforcement officer who protects and manages a specific area of a biome.
What is a game warden?
It forms from ocean water along the shore and contains small organisms.
What is a tide pool?
The zone of the ocean that receives the most sunlight and warmth.
What is the sunlight zone?
The biome found between deserts and forests that has mostly grass.
What is the grassland?
The flowing-water biome that begins with the headwater and empties into the ocean.
What is the river?
The average weather of an area over a period of many years.
What is the climate?
The force that causes fresh water to flow downhill toward the ocean.
What is gravity?
God designed polars bears to live in the tundra by giving them 2 things.
Do polar bears have a thick layer of blubber under their fur and black skin to help them absorb more heat?
The wetland biome with many trees that has salt water or fresh water.
What is the swamp?
The dry biome that receives less than 25 cm of precipitation each year.
What is the desert?
All the biomes on Earth make up this.
What is the biosphere?
God designed deciduous trees to have and do these 2 things.
Do deciduous trees have large, wide leaves and lose their leaves in cold weather?
God designed plants in the desert to do 2 things.
Do plants keep water inside the plant with a waxy coating on leaves and stems and store water in leaves and stems?
The coldest biome, which has permanently frozen subsoil
What is the tundra?
The grassland biome found close to the Equator.
What is the savanna?
A large group of similar ecosystems that share the same climate and organisms.
What is a biome?
The correct order of zones of the ocean from top to bottom
Sunlight zone
Twilight zone
Midnight zone
Abyss
Trenches
The climate close to the equator and the climate way above the equator.
Is the climate close to the equator warm and the climate above the equator cold?
The largest land biome, which has mostly conifers.
What is the taiga?
The biome that reaches from the taiga to the tropical biomes and has four seasons.
What is the temperate forest?
The Earth system that includes all the areas where life can exist and all the organisms that live there.
What is the biosphere?
The correct order of layers of the tropical rainforest from top to bottom
Emergent layer
Canopy layer
Understory layer
Forest floor
God designed some animals in the temperate forest to do these 2 things.
Do some animals hibernate when the temperature gets colder and migrate to a warmer location when the temperature gets colder?