WorksheetsBiomes
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 10mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
A biome is......
a)
Like a snowglobe that you shake and can see different types of animals.
b)
A large region of earth with a certain type of climate
c)
An area of earth only found in the United States.
d)
A community of living things.
2.
True of False?
Animals that live in the desert have adapted to live with little water since the desert gets little rainfall.
Animals that live in the desert have adapted to live with little water since the desert gets little rainfall.
a)
True
b)
False
3.
The earth's coldest biome is the....
a)
Antartica
b)
Grasslands
c)
Tundra
d)
Freshwater
4.
The climate in a tropical rain forest can be described as
a)
cold and wet
b)
warm and dry
c)
cold and dry
d)
warm and wet
5.
Birds, beavers, fish, and insects live in this biome.
a)
Marine
b)
Freshwater
c)
Tundra
d)
Taiga
6.
This biome includes three zones: intertidal, near-shore, and open ocean zone and includes living thins such as crabs, otters, and whales.
a)
Wetlands
b)
Marine
c)
Ocean
d)
Freshwater
7.
Which biome has deciduous trees (which lose their leaves)?
a)
Temperate Forest
b)
Rainforest
c)
Grasslands
d)
Taiga
8.
Which biome has the most variety of plants and animals?
a)
Temperate Forest
b)
Rainforest
c)
Tundra
d)
Grasslands
9.
Which biome has 4 seasons?
a)
Taiga
b)
Tundra
c)
Grasslands
d)
Temperate Forest
10.
Which biome is home to jaguars, anacondas, leopards, gorillas, and poisonous tree frogs?
a)
Grasslands
b)
Temperate Forest
c)
Rainforest
d)
Tundra
11.
Which biome could an animal who hibernates in the winter to survive the cold live in?
a)
Grasslands
b)
Taiga
c)
Desert
d)
Rainforest
12.
One characteristic feature of tundra is that only the surface thaws in the summer and refreezes in the winter, leaving a layer of permanently frozen subsoil. This characteristic is known as
a)
glaciation
b)
permafrost
c)
crystallization
d)
soilfrost
13.
Which biome is represented by the rainfall amounts in letter C?
a)
desert
b)
prairie
c)
deciduous forest
d)
tropical rain forest
14.
A ________ is a forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing evergreen trees
a)
desert
b)
temperate deciduous forest
c)
taiga
d)
tundra
15.
Aquatic biomes cover roughly how much of the Earth's surface
a)
10%
b)
25%
c)
50%
d)
75%
100 %
