Biomes Basics
Large areas with similar vegetation, climate, and animal life are called ____.
What are biomes?
The average or typical weather of a place is called ____.
What is climate?
A community of living organisms that are interdependent in an environment is a(n) ____.
What is an ecosystem?
In a food chain, who eats producers?
What are primary consumers?
True or False: Humans adapt their lives to different natural environments.
What is True?
Around ___% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, which contains aquatic biomes.
What is 70%?
Areas near the equator are hot and rainy all year. What degree latitude is the equator?
What is 0°?
Name one small-scale ecosystem.
What is a pond / cave / woodland?
Animals that feed off dead bodies before decomposers are called ____.
What are scavengers?
Someone in the far north of Canada has a very different life compared to someone on a ____.
What is a tropical island?
Give one example of a land (terrestrial) biome.
Answer: What is a desert / rainforest / grassland / tundra / forest / mountain?
What is a desert / rainforest / grassland / tundra / forest / mountain?
The effect of the sea moderating temperatures is called the ____ effect.
What is the maritime effect?
In an ecosystem, plants and vegetation that make food are called ____.
What are producers?
Give an example of a decomposer.
What is a mushroom / insect?
What factor most determines what can grow in a location?
What is climate?
Desert biomes can be found on four different continents. Name two.
What are Africa, Asia, Oceania, and North America?
What factor explains why high places in tropical climates can feel cooler?
What is altitude?
Consumers can be herbivores, carnivores, or ____.
What are omnivores?
Why are food webs more common than food chains?
What is because many organisms eat the same things?
Name one way humans might modify their environment to survive.
What is building shelters, irrigation, heating, farming methods?
Why are biomes important?
What is because they indicate climate, vegetation, and animal life, and show how life adapts to different environments?
Which ocean current warms parts of Western Europe?
What is the Gulf Stream?
The animals at the top of the food chain that aren’t preyed upon are called ____.
What are apex predators?
Which group is responsible for recycling nutrients back into the soil?
What are decomposers?
Why is it important to study human impact on environments?
What is because human activities affect ecosystems and biomes worldwide?