Biomes
These are the two kinds of forest biomes.
What are boreal and tropical referring to?
This climate zone is found near the equator and has high temperatures year-round with significant rainfall.
What is the tropical climate?
This happens when soil is removed by forces such farming equipment and livestock, leading to the loss of stable, fertile land.
What is erosion?
This term describes the total amount of precipitation shown on a climate graph for a year.
What is annual rainfall?
This term describes the height of a location above sea level, often shown with contour lines.
What is elevation?
This biome is found in the northern hemisphere and is characterized by coniferous forests, long winters, and short summers.
What is boreal forests?
This climate zone experiences four distinct seasons, with warm summers and cold winters.
What is the temperate climate?
This process involves clearing trees to make way for farmland and can lead to soil erosion.
What is deforestation?
On a climate graph, this is usually represented by a line graph.
What is temperature?
The line running vertically on a map that measures distance east or west of the Prime Meridian is called this.
What is longitude?
This biome is characterized by extremely cold temperatures, permafrost, and limited vegetation.
What is the tundra?
This climate zone is known for its extremely cold temperatures and is found near the poles.
What is the polar climate?
This removes the small spaces in the soil, where air and water would accumulate, and happens through large weight from farming machinery and livestock repeatedly travelling across land.
What is soil compaction?
In a climate graph, these are often represented by bars.
What is precipitation?
This line on a map runs horizontally and measures distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
This type of biome has hot, dry conditions and is home to cacti and other drought-resistant plants.
What is the desert?
This zone has hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters and is typical of areas around the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Mediterranean climate?
This process introduces new species of plants, the soil nutrients and micro-culture is disrupted and native plants are often killed with pesticides.
What is cultivated land?
If the line on a climate graph is flat with no major peaks, the location likely has this type of climate.
What is a tropical climate?
This map feature uses a combination of symbols and shading to represent the various physical features of the land, such as elevation and terrain.
What is a topographic map?
These are the five major biome types.
What is forest, tundra, desert, grassland and aquatic?
his climate zone is found on the leeward side of mountain ranges, where air descending the mountains becomes dry, leading to desert conditions.
What is the rain shadow (or leeward) climate zone?
This refers to the number of different plant and animal species supported by an environment, and can be negatively impacted by agricultural practices.
What is biodiversity?
If a climate graph shows very little precipitation throughout the year with a steep drop in temperatures during winter, the location is most likely found in this type of biome.
What is a cold desert biome?
On a map, this term describes the relationship between the distance on the map and the actual distance on the ground, often expressed as a ratio or scale bar.
What is map scale?