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Biomes and Food Security Revision

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 39mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is a biome?

a)

Tundra Forest

b)

An area of the planet that can be classified according to the plants and animals that live in it.

c)

A place on earth

2.

A biome is determined mostly by its climate

a)

True

b)

False

3.

Climate is characterised by ____________ & ___________ over a period of time?

a)

Weather & altitude

b)

Day & night

c)

Altitude and latitude

d)

Temperature & precipitation

4.

Which biome has vegetation limited to small shrubs, herbs, grasses, moss and lichen as its soil is frozen for most of the year resulting in short growing seasons when the ground thaws.

a)

Forest

b)

Tundra

c)

Grassland

d)

Desert

5.

Which biome is typically closer to the equator?

a)

Temperate Forest

b)

Tundra

c)

Grassland

d)

Tropical Forest

6.

What does "arid" mean?

a)

wet

b)

hot

c)

dry

7.

An area having relatively little precipitation due to the effect of a barrier, especially a mountain range, that causes the prevailing winds to lose their moisture on the windward side, causing the leeward side to be dry is referred to as what?

a)

Rainfall effect

b)

Altitude effect

c)

Rainshadow effect

d)

Cloud effect

8.

On a climate graph, what depicts rainfall?

a)

Column

b)

Line

9.

Meeting the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs is known as what?

a)

Unsustainable agriculture

b)

Thoughtful agriculture

c)

Sustainable agriculture

10.

The amount of useful product gained from agriculture, expressed in relation to units of land, livestock, capital or labour applied, is known as what?

a)

Yields

b)

Crops

c)

Products

11.

Agriculture grown for profit that uses chemicals to improve productivity is what type of agriculture?

a)

Subsistence

b)

Commercial

c)

Industrial

12.

What type of agriculture produces the highest yields?

a)

Subsistence

b)

Commercial

c)

Industrial

13.

Farming techniques that use crop rotations, slash and burning of land is what type of agriculture?

a)

Subsistence

b)

Commercial

c)

Industrial

14.

Which are the BENEFITS of subsistence agriculture? Hint: there is more then one correct answer - click all that apply.

a)

Releases stored carbon dioxide into the atmosphere

b)

Uses no herbicides

c)

Often large trees can be left

d)

Slow regeneration of land

15.

What percentage of packaged foods are estimated to contain Palm Oil?

a)

10%

b)

30%

c)

50%

d)

70%

16.

What is an anomaly?

a)

a deviation from the common rule or type

b)

a similar occurrence

c)

something that is normal

17.

Predict the biome

a)

Tundra

b)

Tropical Rainforest

c)

Temperate forest

d)

Desert

18.

What is a trend?

a)

a general direction in which something is developing or changing.

b)

A pattern

c)

A fashion

d)

All of the above

19.

What is this an example of?

a)

A colourful picture of Australia

b)

A climate map

c)

A choropleth map

d)

A climate graph

20.

The biome commonly found between the two tropics is?

a)

Polar lands

b)

Tundra

c)

Tropical forest

d)

Boreal forests