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Unit 5: Biome Vocabulary Review

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
A(n) ____________ is an area where freshwater meets the ocean. 
a)
estuary
b)
coral reef
c)
sand bar
d)
succession 
2.

Deciduous trees are dormant (at rest) in the ________.

a)

temperate forest 

b)
taiga 
c)
tropical rain forest 
d)

tundra

3.

What is another name for permanently frozen soil in the tundra? 

a)

estuary

b)

penguin toes

c)

polar bears

d)

permafrost 

4.

Which vocabulary word is represented in the picture?

a)

Biome

b)

Desert

c)

Habitat

d)

Marine

5.

Which vocabulary word is represented in the picture?

a)

Taiga

b)

Tundra

c)

Rainforest

d)

Desert

6.

Which vocabulary word is represented in the picture?

a)

Desert

b)

Tundra

c)

Rainforest

d)

Decidous Forest

7.

Which vocabulary word is represented in the picture?

a)

Desert

b)

Tundra

c)

Rainforest

d)

Marine

8.

Which vocabulary word is represented in the picture?

a)

Tagia

b)

Tundra

c)

Desert

d)

Deciduous Forest

9.

Which vocabulary word is represented in the picture?

a)

Grassland

b)

Desert

c)

Tagia

d)

Deciduous Forest

10.

Which vocabulary word is represented in the picture?

a)

Freshwater

b)

Marine

c)

Tundra

d)

Desert

11.

An aquatic biome with a high amount of salt. It covers most of the surface of the earth. Which one is it?

a)

Ponds

b)

Estuary

c)

Marine

d)

Fresh water

12.

This biome is found at the northernmost latitudes; this biome receives little precipitation mostly in the form of snow. It has no trees and can only grow plants that are close to the ground. Which one is it?

a)

Tundra

b)

Taiga

c)

Grassland

d)

Desert

13.

A biome that has mostly grass with few scattered trees is known as what?

a)

grassland

b)

savanna

c)

desert

d)

it could be both grassland and savanna

14.

This biome is made-up of deciduous trees; it experiences four seasons annually. Georgia is found in this biome. Which one is it?

a)

Tundra

b)

Temperate Deciduous Forest

c)

Taiga

d)

Tropical RainForest

15.

This is where communities of organisms & non-living things interact in the environment. What is this called?

a)

community

b)

habitat

c)

ecosystem

d)

population

16.

Permanently frozen layer of soil beneath the surface of the ground that is found in the tundra is called what?

a)

permafrost

b)

latitude

c)

estuary

d)

penguin toes

17.

All of the organism living in a particular area is known as what?

a)

community

b)

ecosystem

c)

biome

d)

Terrestial

18.

Another name for land is...

a)

terrestial

b)

aquatic

c)

deciduous

d)

taiga

19.

Another name for water is...

a)

terrestial

b)

aquatic

c)

latitude

d)

alpine

20.

A living or once-living organism in its environment is known as what?

a)
population
b)
biotic factor
c)
abiotic factor
d)

freshwater

21.

A nonliving element in an ecosystem is known as what?

a)

population

b)
abiotic factor
c)
biotic factor
d)
organism
22.

This ecological level includes all the living and nonliving things that interact in a given area is known as what?

a)

region

b)

ecosystem

c)

biome

d)

community

23.

The home of an organism is known as what?

a)

habitat

b)

trait

c)

population

d)

community

24.

Soil, dirt, rocks, precipitation, air, water, sunlight are examples of the non-living parts of the environment known as what?

a)

aquatic

b)

biotic

c)

abiotic

d)

terrestrial

25.

A forest near the equator that is characterized by large amounts of rain and little change in temperature and that contains the greatest known diversity of organisms on Earth is known as what?

a)

marine

b)

tundra

c)

taiga

d)

tropical rain forest

26.

A forest (or biome) that is characterized by trees that shed their leaves in the fall is known as what?

a)

tropical rain forest

b)

temperate deciduous forest

c)

estuary

d)

taiga

27.

A biome with a coniferous forest (triangle-shaped) below the tundra where most precipitation happens as snowfall is called what?

a)

taiga

b)

temperate rain forest

c)

temperate deciduous forest

d)

tropical rain forest

28.

A biome that has little or no vegetation, long periods without rain, and extreme temperatures (day to night) is known as?

a)

savanna

b)

taiga

c)

tundra

d)

desert

29.

An area of land that has similar biotic and abiotic conditions is a...

a)

biome

b)

biosphere

c)

community

d)

population

30.

Trees that lose their leaves during one given season each year are...

a)

deciduous.

b)

coniferous.

c)

dangerous.

d)

humus.

31.

Another word for "land" is

a)

aquatic.

b)

marine.

c)

subterranean.

d)

terrestrial.

32.

Seeds of these plants are found in cones.

a)

Deciduous.

b)

Non-vascular.

c)

Angiosperms.

d)

Conifers.

33.

The size of the population of a species in an ecosystem is determined by the ​ (a)   factors available to them.

Choose from the below words
biotic and abiotic
writing and drawing
chemistry
blanket and pillow
34.
Any thing or organism that regulates the size of a population of another organism is known as __________.
a)
a limiting measure
b)
a limiting factor
c)
factorization
d)
materialization of precipitation