Biomes 1
This biome is characterised by less than 250 mm of precipitation
Desert
This biome is used most for agriculture
Grasslands
This is the dominant agriculural practice in the Amazon
What is shifting cultivatoin
An extensive form of grazing where nomads move livestock from place to place to find pastures
What is Nomadic Herding
This is the name used for grasslands in the USA
What is a Prairie?
[Can you name the other ones?]
The dominant flora in this Biome is Coniferous trees
Boreal
Arid/Desert
Agriculture practice that is characterised by high input of labour and capital in a smaller area
What is intensive farming
Large scale farming (over a large area) for profit using small inputs of labour, fertilizers & capital to produce meat.
What is Commercial, intensive livestock farming
This continent is the largest Desert on Earth
What is Antarctica?
14.2 million square kilometers
This biome is usually located above the Arctic and below the Antarctic circles
The dominant biome in Western Europe
Temperate Forest
The agriculture practiced in the arid regions of northern Australia
Extensive Cattle farming for Beef
This is used in order to overcome the limitations of Climate
What is technology?
[examples could includd: Greenhouses, Irrigation,
Other]
This biome has cold short growing seasons and no trees
What is the Tundra
This biome has the highest NPP of the Terrestrial Biomes
What is the Tropical Rainforest.
[Swamps and Marshes should be classified as Aquatic]
These are reasons that Tundra are poor for Agriculture
What is low precipitation and light, Tundra
The overal agricultural suitablity of Central Australia
What is "Not Suitable"
This large Banana shaped lake in Siberia
What is Lake Baikal
These "factors" are solar radiation, availability of water, soil condition, climate, wind and weather, altitude, location and landforms, and chemical interactions.
What are Abiotic Factors
The most suitable biome for Agriculture
What is the Termperate Forest
These are the main reasons that Rainforests are bad for Agriculture
What is thin acidic soil due to rainwater washout of nutrients
Self-sufficient farming where the farmer only grows enough food for their family & themselves.
Subsistence Farming
This is responsible for the seasons
What is the angle of the Earth's "Tilt" {23 1/5 degrees}
The amount of energy and/or nutrients taken in by a plant from the atmosphere or oceans, minus the carbon dioxide it emits during respiration.