Water Biomes
Ponds, streams, and lakes are this.
What is freshwater?
This is the driest biome.
What is the desert?
This animal is found in a temperate deciduous forest.
What is a raccoon /dragonfly/ oppossum /hawk /salamandar /snake, etc?
This is the largest HOT desert.
What is the Sahara desert?
The samllest on the ecosystem scale; one single living thing.
What is an organism?
This is the least explored biome.
What is the marine biome?
Trees do not really grow in the grasslands because of this.
What is little rainfall?
This is where you will find squirrels, moose, bears, and lynxes.
What is the taiga/ coniferous forest?
This biome can support trees, but is too far north of the equator for the leaves to grow trees.
What is a taiga/ coniferous forest?
Not living now, never was living, and never will be living.
What is abiotic?
This is the most important abiotic factor in streams and rivers.
This biome receives the most rainfall- around 12 feet- per year.
What is the tropical rainforest?
This biome has the most biodiversity (and thus health) of any biome.
What is the tropical rainforest?
This biome is located near the North Pole, such as in Northern Canada, Siberia, and Alaska.
What is the tundra?
All the communities in an area PLUS the biotic factors in the environment.
What is an ecosystem?
This oceanic zone is the name for the ocean floor.
What is the benthic zone?
-18 degrees F is the average temperature here.
What is the tundra?
In this biome, most animals only come out at night.
What is the desert?
This is found in the middle of the North American continent, plus also in the middle of Asia.
What are grasslands?
This indicates the water is salty and is also the name of the world's largest biome.
What is marine?
Producers in this area include algae, cattail, and rushes. Consumers include snails and turtles.
What is the littoral zone of ponds and lakes?
This is the biome where we live with four distinct seasons.
What is a temperate deciduous biome?
The trees form a canopy in this biome.
What is a tropical rainforest?
In Africa, you would see zebras in this biome.
What is a savanna/grassland?
Tiny animals in the ocean.
What is zooplankton?