Climate, Human Impacts on Climate, and Biomes

What is a BIOME?

• A brand of dishwashing liquid

• A naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat

• An unnatural environment for bacteria to grow in

• A group of non-living organisms in a particular environment

What are the 5 different ways humans are impacting the environment?

• Deforestation, interbreeding, desalination, saturation, ethics

• Deforestation, desertification, ice age, parasitic worms, skeleton

• Global warming, overpopulation, electricity, ocean acidification, food

• Deforestation, desertification, global warming, invasive species, overharvesting

What is TOPOGRAPHY?

• A type of cheese

• A top-down view on a video game

• The arrangement of animals within a habitat

• The arrangement of landforms in the landscape

Why is biodiversity important? Click all that apply.

• Protects an ecosystem from outside invaders

• Prevents species from going extinct

• Allows organisms to adapt to changes in their environment

• Strengthens an ecosystem by providing a lot of different foods & materials for others to be able to survive

Choose the TUNDRA biome.

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The sun's rays are least direct

• near the poles
• near the equator
• at high altitude
• far from the ocean

Summers are caused by _________________________________.

• a combo of longer days and more direct rays from the sun
• less direct rays from the sun
• longer days and shorter nights
• more direct rays and shorter days

Because Earth's axis is _________________, the hemispheres receive different amounts of solar energy at different times.

• straight
• titled
• bent
• not there

The gradual increase in the temperature of the atmosphere is known as ___________________.

• sunspots
• global warming
• ice ages
• arid

Some scientists theorize that continental movements may cause climate changes by

• changing patterns of winds and ocean currents
• shifting the equatorial and temperate zones
• altering the makeup of the troposphere
• redistributing Earth's vegetation