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Land Biomes A
Land Biomes B
Land Biomes C
Aquatic Biomes
Aquatic Biomes
100
Wet biome, receives precipitation throughout the year.
What is a Deciduous forest?
100
Has many trees that lose their leaves in the winter.
What is a Deciduous forest?
100
Temperate grasslands.
What is a Prairie?
100
Trees grow close together in this layer of a tropical rainforest.
What is the Canopy layer?
100
The three types of Wetlands.
What are Marshes, Swamps, and Bogs?
200
Has many trees that are conifers.
What is a Coniferous forest?
200
A large area of the earth with plants and animals that share a similar environment.
What is a biome?
200
Tropical grasslands
What is a Savanna?
200
Aquatic biomes are specified as either _________ or _________ biomes.
What are Salt water and Fresh water biomes?
200
The only type of Wetland that ONLY freshwater.
What is a Bog?
300
Known as the "coldest biome"
What is the Tundra?
300
The usual weather of a region over a long period of time.
What is the climate?
300
Only biome that can be either hot or cold, but all are very dry.
What is a Desert?
300
The ocean is known as the largest ___________ biome.
What is a Salt water or Marine biome?
300
A type of Wetland that can be either fresh water or salt water and has LOTS of trees.
What is a Swamp?
400
Dry biome, receives very little precipitation.
What is the Tundra?
400
Permanently frozen soil.
What is permafrost?
400
The main vegetation of this biome is grass.
What is a Grassland?
400
River water flows downhill to the ocean because of this...
What is gravity?
400
Term used to refer to the amount of dissolved salt in the water.
What is salinity?
500
Known as the "largest land biome".
What is the Coniferous forest?
500
Consists of all the areas where life can exist and the organisms that live there.
What is the biosphere?
500
Refers to how many species of plants and animals are found in a specific area.
What is Biodiversity?
500
Known as the "most common wetland".
What is a Marsh?
500
Ponds, lakes, streams, and rivers are all examples of this aquatic biome.
What is Fresh water biome?