Biomes are generally named for the ______________ that grows there.
What is the vegetation?
100
Forest biomes are able to support trees due to this environmental factor.
What is precipitation or rainfall?
100
This human intervention is a major threat to the tundra.
What are oil pipelines?
100
A combination between a bar and line graph showing an area's temperature and climate.
What is a climatogram?
100
This is the driest biome.
What is a desert?
200
These two factors determine climate.
What is temperature and precipitation?
200
Plants that use the entire surface of a tree to live.
What is an epiphyte?
200
This biome is located near the tropical and sub-tropic areas close to the equator.
What is the savanna?
200
These two factors are shown on a climatogram.
What is average monthly precipitation and average monthly temperature?
200
This is the coldest biome.
What is the tundra?
300
These two factors can also affect which plants can grow in a biome.
What is latitude and altitude?
300
These are the four layers of the canopy in the tropical rain forest.
What is emergent, upper canopy, lower canopy, and understory?
300
This is an adaptation used by the sage plant of the Chaparral.
What is flammable leaves?
300
The timeline of a climatogram is measured in these...
What are months?
300
This biome has the greatest species diversity.
What the tropical rain forest?
400
These are the two main kinds of biomes.
What is terrestrial and aquatic?
400
Above ground roots on trees.
What are buttresses or braces?
400
This part of the temperate grassland biome gets up to 88 cm of rain per year.
What is the tallgrass prairie?
400
A climatogram that indictates very little rainfall year round could be one of these two biomes.
What is tundra or desert?
400
This biome is located just below the Arctic Circle.
What is the taiga?
500
We studied 9 biomes this chapter, their names are...
What is tropical rain forest, temperate rain forest, temperate deciduous forest, taiga, savanna, temperate grasslands, chaparral, deserts, and tundra.
500
The region in the United States where the only temperate rain froest is located.
What is the Pacific Northwest?
500
As climates receive less rainfall, forest biomes are replaced by savanna, grassland, and chaparral biomes. As even less rain falls, they turn into _______ or _______ biomes.
What is desert and tundra?
500
Biome climatograms that have noticeable spikes in precipitation once or twice a year may indicate this kind of biome.
What is the savanna?
500
This biome is located between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.