What is a geographic area characterized by certain types of plants and animals.
What is a biome?
200
What is deciduous, coniferous and tropical rainforest.
Name the 3 main types of forest biomes.
200
What is savanna.
A _____ contains scattered clumps of trees.
200
What are shallow roots that absorb water quickly. What are deep roots that reach ground water as deep as 30m below.
How are different plants adapted to living in the desert.
200
What is permafrost?
What is soil that is always frozen?
200
What is a non-living factor?
What is abiotic?
300
What are conifers, needle-like leaves
What type of leaves do conifers have?
300
What is savanna
What are inhabited by the most abundant and diverse groups of large herbivores in the world.
300
What are jack rabbits, tortoises, kangaroo rats, snakes
What are some desert animals.
300
What is alpine tundra?
What tundra biome is found above the tree line of very high mountains. It receives a lot of sunlight and precipitation, mostly snow.
300
What is water, temperature, light and air?
What are some abiotic factors that you would find in nature.
400
What is in the canopy.
Most animals live in the rainforest live in the canopy or on the ground.
400
What are elephants, giraffes, lions, leopards, zebras,
What are some animals commonly found in the grasslands.
400
A jack rabbit has huge ears so it can get rid of excess heat, a kangaroo rat recycles water from the foods it eats so it never needs to take a drink, a tortoise can store water under its shell for months.
What are some ways animals adapt to living in the desert.
400
What are oxen, wolves, lemmings, rabbits and caribou.
What are some animals commonly found in the tundra?
400
What are deciduous forests, coniferous forests, tropical rain forests, grasslands, savannas, deserts and tundras.
What are the seven different types of land biomes?
500
What is "to fall off"
The term deciduous originates from a Latin word that means....
500
What are flowering plants and grasses.
What kind of vegetation can be found in the grasslands.
500
No because we live in the deciduous forest part of North America.
Do you live in a desert biome? Justify your answer.
500
What are grassses, rushes, small woody shrubs.
What are some plants found in the tundra?
500
What is the forest biome?
Most of Earth's land can be categorized under this biome?