Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecosystems

Biomes: Concentration on Intro toTerrestrial Biome

S7L4d. Ask questions to gather and synthesize information from multiple sources to differentiate between Earth’s major terrestrial biomes (i.e., tropical rainforest, savanna, temperate forest, desert, grassland, taiga, and tundra) and aquatic ecosystems (i.e., freshwater, estuaries, and marine). 

Biome Definition & Characteristics

A biome is a large area of land that is classified based on the climate, plants, and animals that make their homes there. Biomes contain many ecosystems within the same area.

When we talk about climate in this lesson, we are going to look at the average temperature and precipitation the region receives. Climate is often influenced by latitude, or how far north or south a location is from the equator.

Know Your Type of Biomes

Land-based biomes are called terrestrial biomes. Water-based biomes are called aquatic biomes. Temperatures, precipitation amounts, and prevalent organisms characterize the biomes of the world.

Multiple Choice

The two abiotic factors used to classify earth’s terrestrial biomes are

• plant and animal species present.

• trophic levels and average temperature.

• average yearly precipitation and temperature.

• length of growing season and amount of rainfall.

Multiple Choice

The climate is influenced by

• longitude

• latitude

• attitude

• velocity

Multiple Choice

A biome is a small area of land that is classified based on the climate, plants, and animals that make their homes there.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Terrestrial Biome is based on __________________.

• water

• land

Terrestrial Biome Examples

7th-grade Standard-based terrestrial biomes are as follows: tropical rainforest, savanna (tropical savanna grassland), temperate forest, desert, grassland (temperate grassland), taiga, and tundra).

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Complete the chart using the information from this quizizz lesson.