Biomes
This Biome is the coldest, with low amounts of precipitation.
What is the Tundra?
This is the label of the x-axis of Climatograms.
What are the months of the year?
This tool measures air pressure?
What is a Barometer?
Forces warm air up along a steep front
What is a Cold Front?
The science of classifying living things is known as?
What is Taxonomy?
This Biome contains evergreen trees.
What is the Coniferous Forest?
Temperature is measured by?
What is Degrees Celsius or Fahrenheit?
This tool measures humidity?
What is a hygrometer?
Two air masses meet.
What is a stationary front?
The Swedish Scientist who developed the classification system we use today is?
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
This Biome is found in west coastal regions. Specifically, San Bernardino, CA.
What is a Shrubland?
Precipitation is measured by what unit(s)?
What are cm, mm or inches?
This tool measures precipitation?
What is a rain gauge?
Warm air displaces cold air, warm air encounters less friction with ground
What is a warm front?
Fungus and animals are ____________; they break down their own food and reabsorb the nutrients.
What are heterotrophs?
This Biome contains prairies, clovers, wheat, etc.
What is the Grassland?
This is the label of the y-axis of a Climatogram.
What is Precipitation AND Temperature?
This tool checks the direction of the wind?
What is a wind vane?
Moves rapidly that it overtakes a warm front.
What is an occluded front?
Bacteria, Archaea, Eukarya belong to which taxa group?
What is the Domain?
This Biome is found between the polar regions and the tropics. Trees have adapted by changing the colors of their leaves.
What is the Deciduous Forest?
Climatograms are what kind of graphs.
Line AND Bar graphs.
This tool measures wind speed?
What is an anemometer?
Warm moist air, bad weather is associated with what type of pressure system?
What is a Low Pressure System?
The method of naming and classifying organisms that Linnaeus adopted was based on....
What is morphology?