Biome Basics
This biome is characterized by cold temperatures, permafrost, and low precipitation.
What is the Tundra?
This term refers to the variety of living organisms on Earth.
What is biodiversity?
This type of ecosystem service provides us with food, water, and resources.
What are provisioning services?
A disease is this type of limiting factor.
What is Density Dependent?
This is a tool used by scientists to identify unknown organisms based on a series of choices that lead to the correct name.
What is a dichotomous key?
This forest biome is dominated by coniferous trees and is characterized by very cold winters and warm and rainy summers.
What is Taiga?
These are the three components of biodiversity.
What are genetic diversity, species diversity, and ecosystem diversity?
Purifying the air is an example of this ecosystem service.
What are regulating services?
This is the way organisms are spaced out in an area.
What is population dispersal?
You always start here when using a dichotomous key.
What is the first question/observation?
This biome has moderate temperatures and is known for its huge trees.
What is the Temperate Rainforest?
These areas are known for having many unique species and high biodiversity but are at risk due to human activities.
What are biodiversity hotspots?
Ecotourism falls under this category of ecosystem services.
What are cultural services?
What is species richness?
You’ve reached a part of a key that says, “If it has six legs, it’s an insect. If it has eight legs, it’s a spider.” Your organism has eight legs. What is the organism?
What is a spider?
This biome is known for its high biodiversity, warm temperatures, and abundant rainfall.
What is the Tropical Rainforest?
These are two threats to biodiversity. (Think limiting factors)
What are invasive species?
What is climate change?
What is deforestation?
What are human activities?
What is pollution?
This essential ecosystem service involves the formation of soil and cycling of nutrients.
What are Supporting Services?
Closeness in number of species in the environment.
What is species evenness?
When you reach the end of a dichotomous key, you find this.
What is an organism?
These are two characteristics of desert biomes.
What are little to no precipitation?
What are hot or cold temperatures?
What are large temperature shifts?
This is why high biodiversity is important.
It helps maintain stable ecosystems.
It provides ecosystem services.
Ecosystems become resistant to environmental changes.
Ecosystems become resilient.
Name two examples of provisioning ecosystem services.
What is food?
What is fiber?
What is fuel?
What is lumber?
What is medicine?
Organisms are observed migrating from Canada in groups of 3. This would be an example of what type of dispersal?
What is clumped dispersal?
A key says “Lives in water / Lives on land.” A fish would go which way?
Lives in water