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ZONES OF LIFE
TUNDRA/TAIGA
DECIDUOUS FOREST
GRASSLAND/DESERT
TROPICAL RAINFOREST
100
The average weather of a region over a long period of time.
What is Climate
100
A biome that is cold and recieves little precipitation. Winters are long, dark, and VERY windy. Summers are only 8 weeks.
What is the Tundra?
100
Biome named fro the broad leaved trees, temperate climate.
What is The Deciduous Forest?
100
a biome that has cold winters, warm summers, and uneven precipitation.
What is the Grassland?
100
a biome that has high temperatures and a large amount of rain, near the equator, warm humid climate, seasons vary only in rainfall.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
200
Climate
What is one factor that affects where organisms live?
200
The frozen soil that doesn't allow water to drain or roots to grow deep.
What is Permafrost?
200
Maple, Oak, Beech.
What kinds of plants live there?
200
Grasses, insects such as ants, locusts, and grasshoppers, prairie dog, owls
What are the living things in the Grassland?
200
Canopy- crowns of trees, Understory- young trees and palms, Forest Floor- very dark, few plants
What are the layers of the TRF?
300
A large region on the earth that has a certian climate and certian kinds of organisms.
What is a biome?
300
Dwarf trees, grasses, mosses, and lichens. Lemmings, caribou, artic foxes, snowy owls, and wolves.
What are the plants and animals of the Tundra?
300
Canopy- squirrel, Understory- birds, Shrub layer- butterfly, Forest Floor- bunnies & frogs.
What are the layers of the Deciduous Forest?
300
A biome that receives less than 10 inches of rain/year, Hot during day, cold at night (could snow)
What is the Desert?
300
Long thorns, sharp spikes, poison sap that can blind a person
What are the tree adaptations?
400
Conifers- leaves all year, produce own food Ferns & mosses- grow w/out much light. Porcupines- live in tree & eat the needles & Bark Birds- beaks get seeds from cones Moose- survive on pine needles/lake plants
What are the plants & animal of the Taiga?
400
plants are short, make/store their own food. animals burrow, migrate.
What are the adaptations of the plants and animals?
400
Squirrels, deer, rabbits, & beavers (herbivores) Foxes, black bears, & hawks (carnivores) Insects, worms, snails, millipedes, slugs (invertebrates) Snakes, frogs, salamanders, & birds
What are the animals in the Deciduous Forest?
400
Cactus, creosote bush, snakes and lizards, kangaroo rat, lizards, foxes & owls
What are the living things in the desert?
400
Canopy layer- birds, sloths, monkeys
What are the animals of the TRF?
500
The ways in which and animal or plant help itself to survive in its enviornment.
What are Adaptations?
500
A biome in which the main type of plant life is evergreen trees, long hard winters & constant snow cover.
What is the Taiga like?
500
Winter- squirrels store food, bears hibernate and live off of fat, birds fly south
What are their adaptations?
500
Cactus- stores water, waxy leaves, dry scaly skin, water from seeds, burrows, nocturnal hunters. Insects- able to chew grass, piercing mouth parts, hide in grass, burrow
What are the adaptations of these animals?
500
Humming Bird- long beak to drink nectar Sloth- strong claws for climbing Monkey- opposable thumbs, grasping hands and feet, tail
What are the animal adaptations?