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General Facts Rain- Forests Temperate Forests & Taiga Savannas, Grasslands & Chaparral Deserts and Tundra 100 100 100 100 100 200 200 200 200 200 300 300 300 300 300 400 400 400 400 400 500 500 500 500 500

100 What do you call a large region with a specific climate, plants and animals?

100 - Answer Biome

200 Biomes are named for the plants that live there, but what major factor influences what plants are there?

200 - Answer Climate

300 What do you call the height of an object above sea level?

300 - Answer Altitude

400 As biomes get hotter and wetter, what happens to the size of the plants?

400 - Answer They get larger.

500 What happens to a climate as you move farther north or south of the equator?

500 - Answer It gets colder.

100 What type of biome is always warmand receives between 200 and 450 inches of rain every year?

100 - Answer A Tropical Rainforest

200 Very little light reaches this layer of the rainforest and plants that like shade grow here.

200 - Answer The Understory

300 The largest threat to the rainforest biome is this (when land that is inhabited by an organism is destroyed).

300 - Answer Habitat Destruction

400 In the tropical rainforest, most of the nutrients are not in the soil. Where are they?

400 - Answer In the plants.

500 What do you call a plant that uses a tree surface for a place to live?

500 - Answer An Epiphyte

100 A tree that loses its leaves every year is said to be what kind of tree?

100 - Answer Deciduous

200 Name a specific tree that you would find in a temperate deciduous forest.

200 - Answer Oak, maple, ash, walnut, hickory, cherry, locust, birch, ect…

300 What do you call a northern coniferous forest that has a long winter and short growing season?

300 - Answer Taiga

400 Daily Double! What do the special leaves (needles) of taiga trees do to the soil as they decompose.

400 - Answer Make it acidic.

500 What taiga mammal’s fur is brown in the summer and changes to white in the winter?

500 - Answer Snowshoe Hare

100 Which biome type has the most fertile soil of all biome types?

100 - Answer Grasslands

200 Which biome type has low trees and shrubs that contain oils that promote burning?

200 - Answer Chaparral

300 Daily Double! In which type of biome would you find grasses, with a few shrubs and scattered trees, inhabited by many grazing herbivores?

300 - Answer Savannas

400 Why are there practically no trees in the grasslands?

400 - Answer They do not receive enough rain.

500 Because savannas are close to the equator, they are extremely hot. How are savanna grasses adapted to the hot sun?

500 - Answer They are long and pointed to avoid it.

100 A biome that receives less than 25 cm of rain a year is called a what?

100 - Answer Desert

200 What do you call the permanently frozen soil in a tundra?

200 - Answer Permafrost

300 Name a type of plant that might grow in the tundra.

300 - Answer Mosses, lichens or herbs

400 In the desert, amphibians estivate. What does this mean?

400 - Answer They bury themselves in the ground and sleep during the dry season.

500 What is the name for desert plant, such as the cactus, that have thick, fleshy stems that store water and prevent water loss?

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