True or false: Most animals never have to leave the treetops to survive in a tropical rain forest.
What is true.
100
The tundra receives less than this many inches of rain each year.
What is less than 25 centimeters?
100
This is the average amount of rain most deserts receive in a year.
What is about 10 inches?
100
This is the amount of rainfall a taiga received annually.
What is 20 inches each year?
100
True or False: The tundra is a treeless region.
What is true.
200
This is why it will never snow in a tropical rain forest.
What is their location? They are located in the warmest and wettest regions of the world.
200
This is the most noticeable feature of the tundra.
What is the flat, open space with no trees?
200
This explains why some deserts can be cold.
What is cold regions that receive only a small amount of rain each year are classified by scientists as deserts?
200
This explains how a coniferous tree is different from a deciduous tree.
What is they shed their leaves, or needles, throughout the year and never lose them all at once remaining "ever green"?
200
This is why tundra plants will not grow very tall.
What is short growing seasons do not provide much time for tundra plants to grow?
300
This is why the rain forest contains the greatest variety of plants in a rain forest than any other biome on Earth.
What is the warm temperatures and high levels of precipitation in a rain forest?
300
These are two of the major climate features of a tundra.
What is cold temperatures and little rain year round?
300
This describes an oasis.
What is a place that has a relatively constant supply of water and are very important to the animals of a desert?
300
This is the term used to categorize trees in a boreal forest.
What is conifer?
300
This is the word that describes a tundra animal's moving habits throughout the year.
What is migrate?
400
Wood is harvested from rain forests for these purposes.
What is making furniture, manufacturing goods, making paper, and making timber for building?
400
This is the biome that you will most likely find next to a tundra.
What is the taiga or boreal forest biome?
400
This is explains why it is more likely that sand in a desert will blow away in a strong wind than the soil of a grassland.
What is prairie plants such as grasses cover most of the surface area of a prairie, while desert plants leave a great deal of soil exposed because they are spaced far apart?
400
This explains why a deciduous tree will not grow in a boreal forest.
What is the boreal forest is too cold and the growing season is too short for deciduous trees to grow, develop, and reproduce?
400
This is why snow covering plants in the tundra is helpful to the tundra plants.
What is snow helps keep plants insulated or protected from cold temperatures and chilling winds.
500
This is what happens to animals when trees in a rain forest are cleared.
What is animals must compete for space to live and find new homes?
500
This is why plants can't grow in the frozen permafrost of the tundra.
What is the root systems of plants cannot absorb water from frozen soil?
500
Prairie soil is more organic than that of a desert and this is why.
What is the decomposing matter in a prairie is greater than in a desert?
500
This explains why the soil of a boreal forest isn't as rich and filled with nutrients as the soil of a deciduous forest.
What is the decomposing leaves and plants form MORE organic material in the soil of a deciduous forest than the decomposing needles do in the soil of a boreal forest?
500
This explains why some tundra animals who move to other biomes or just other parts of the tundra are both called migratory animals.
What is migratory animals are any animals that travel great distances in order to find food and shelter.