Biomes and Adaptations

Biomes and Adaptations

What is a Biome?

Groups of ecosystems Characterized by similar climate (average weather conditions) and organisms living there

Multiple Choice

What is the main factor that separates the biomes?

• Land
• Water
• Climate
• Longitude

Multiple Choice

A large ecosystem is called a ______

• Ecosystem
• Habitat
• Biome
• Niche

Review: Deciduous Forest

• Trees lose leaves in the winter

• Trees have big, broad leaves to absorb sun in the summer

• 4 seasons

Review: Taiga

• Tall, Triangular Coniferous Trees

• Very cold!

• Lots of snow

Review: Tropical Rainforest

• Highest biodiversity

• Lots of rain

• Green year round!

• Found by equator

Multiple Choice

Which biome produces over 50% of the world's oxygen?

• Rainforest
• Temperate Forest
• Grasslands
• Taiga

Multiple Choice

Which biome has 4 seasons?

• Taiga
• Tundra
• Grasslands
• Temperate Forest

Multiple Choice

Which biome has the most variety of plants and animals?

• Temperate Forest
• Rainforest
• Tundra
• Grasslands

Multiple Choice

Which biome has deciduous trees (trees that lose their leaves)?

• Temperate Forest

• Rainforest

• Grasslands

• Taiga

Multiple Choice

A large ecosystem is called a/an ---

• Ecosystem.

• Habitat.

• Biome.

• Niche.

Review: Grassland

• Lots of grasses

• Soil is rich

• Used for farmland

• 
  

Multiple Choice

Which biome is home to lions, zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, and elephants?

• Grasslands

• Tundra

• Rainforest

• Temperate Forest

Review: Desert

• Poor soil

• Hot days and Cold nights

• Water is scarce

Review: Tundra

• COLD

• Layer of permafrost (permanently frozen ground)

• NO trees

Multiple Choice

Which biome has permafrost?

• Temperate Forest

• Rainforest

• Taiga

• Tundra

Multiple Choice

Which biome is characterized by coniferous trees, such as spruce, fir and pine as the dominant species of plant growth?

• taiga

• tropical rain forest

• tundra

• desert

Multiple Choice

Some plants have spines to help protect them from predators.

Why did these plants develop this adaptation?

• They needed sun and nutrients.

• They needed water.

• They needed protection.

• They needed to reproduce.

Multiple Choice

Some desert plants have waxy leaves to help them retain water.

Why did these plants develop this adaptation?

• They needed sun and nutrients.

• They needed water.

• They needed protection.

• They needed to reproduce.

Multiple Choice

Some rainforest vines grow up the trunk of trees to get closer to the sunlight.

Why did this plant develop this adaptation?

• It needed sun and nutrients.

• It needed water.

• It needed protection.

• It needed to reproduce.

Multiple Choice

Traveling done by an animal to find food and water. 
Adaption: birds flying south for the winter

• Camouflage
• Migration
• Hibernation
• Locomotion

Multiple Choice

A resting state through the winter. 
Adaptation: Bear sleeping in a cave during the winter months

• Locomotion
• Hibernation
• Migration
• Defense

Multiple Choice

Plants with spines and waxy leaves are well suited for life in which environment?

• Desert
• Temperate forest
• Grassland
• Tropical Rainfroest

Multiple Choice

How do adaptations help animals?

• To escape animals
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct