Biomes
Geographical regions with dominant plant and animal populations due to the climate
What are Biomes?
This is the 5th largest continent
What is Antarctica?
Name the five oceans.
What are the Indian, Arctic, Atlantic, Southern, and Pacific Oceans?
A large hole formed in a cliff when waves erode the rock
What is a sea cave?
What are renewable resources?
Name the five biomes.
What are Polar, Forest, Grassland, Desert, and Aquatic?
This Pole is considered the coldest on average
What is the South Pole?
A raised movement of water rolling across the surface of the sea
What is a wave?
When a sea cave grows into a vertical shaft leading to the land above
What is a Blowhole?
What are natural resources?
A region of dense plant growth near the Equator with heavy rainfall for at least half of the year
What is a tropical rainforest?
Name three animal species that live in Antarctica
A long, high sea wave caused by an earthquake, landslide, or other disturbance under the sea
What is a Tsunami?
What is a Stack?
The continuous, predictable, directional movement of sea water caused by gravity, wind, and water density
What is an Ocean Current?
These forests are in the far north or high in the mountains, where it is very cold in the winter and rainfall is adequate
What are Boreal Forests?
True or False. There are days when the sun doesn't set in the Arctic.
What is true?
This is true of Antarctica as well.
This is the number one cause of the falling and rising tides on the Earth
What is gravitational pull?
A rock that juts just above the surface of the sea, formed when a tall sea stack erodes away
What is a Stump?
The area of the seabed around a large landmass where the sea is shallow compared to the open sea
What are the subcategories under each biome?
What is
Polar: Tundra, Ice Cap
Forest: Tropical, Temperate, Boreal
Grassland: Tropical, Temperate
Aquatic: Freshwater, Saltwater
Desert: None
Name at least two groups of people native to the Arctic region.
What are Yupik, Inuit, Scandinavian, Yakut, Nenets, or Sami?
This is the name of the deepest part of the ocean found in this trench
What is Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench?
Name the seven coastal formations we learned about
What are sea caves, blowholes, faults, beaches, arches, stacks, and stumps?
An elevated region or a continuous chain of mountains on an ocean floor
An underwater mountain formed by volcanic activity, and does not reach the water's surface
What are ocean ridges and seamounts?