Biomes
Any area in which the annual rate of evaporation exceeds the rate of precipitation.
What is a desert?
Ponds, lakes, streams, rivers, and wetlands.
What are freshwater ecosystems?
Areas of land such as marshes, swamps and bogs that ar saturated with water and that support aquatic plants.
What are wetlands?
Free floating autotrophs and heterotrophs that live in freshwater or marine ecosystems.
What are plankton?
The number of ghosts in a Christmas carol.
What is 4
Warm temperatures and large amounts of rainfall throughout the year.
What is a rainforest?
The percentage of water on the earth that is freshwater.
What is 2.5%?
Trees that are found in estuaries.
What are mangrove trees?
The ocean is around this deep?
What is 10,000 meters?
A child fights off burglars in his home.
What is Home Alone?
These are not considered true biomes because they are ice masses and not true land areas with soil.
What is a polar region?
The material that is deposited by water, wind, or glaciers as water travels down the slope.
What is sediment?
Wet and spongy areas of decomposing vegetation that also support many species of organisms.
What are bogs?
This is narrow band where the ocean meets land. Organisms must be adapted to the constant changes in waves and tides.
What is the intertidal zone?
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Mountains do not fit the definition of a biome because their climate characteristics and plant and animal life vary depending on this.
What is elevation?
The beginning of a body of water.
What is headwater?
Coral reefs form natural barriers along continents that protect shorelines from this.
What is erosion?
the deepest region of the ocean.
The abyssal zone
The real life department store featured in the movie "Miracle on the 34th street."
What is Macy's?
This is also known as coniferous forest.
What is the boreal forest?
These nutrient poor lakes are often found in higher elevations.
What are oligotrophic lakes
Coral reefs and algae have this type of relationship.
What is symbiotic?
The area closest to the shore of the lake. Water is shallow and allows sunlight to reach the bottom.
What is the littoral zone?
The island of misfit toys.
What is "Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer?"