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GeneralFacts
Rain-Forests
TemperateForests &
Taiga
Savannas, Grasslands &
Chaparral
Deserts andTundra
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What do you call a large region with a specific
climate, plants and animals?
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Biome
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Biomes are named for the plants that live
there, but what major factor influences what
plants are there?
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Climate
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What do you call the height of an object above sea level?
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Altitude
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As biomes get hotter and wetter, what
happens to the size of the plants?
400 - Answer
They get larger.
500What happens to a climate as you move farther north or south of the equator?
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It gets colder.
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What type of biome is always warm and
receives between 200 and 450 inches of rain
every year?
100 - Answer
A Tropical Rainforest
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Very little light reaches this layer of the
rainforest and plants that like shade grow
here.
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The Understory
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The largest threat to the rainforest biome is this
(when land that is inhabited by an
organism is destroyed).
300 - Answer
Habitat Destruction
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In the tropical rainforest, most of the nutrients are not in the soil. Where are they?
400 - Answer
In the plants.
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What do you call a plant that uses a tree surface
for a place to live?
500 - Answer
An Epiphyte
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A tree that loses its leaves every year is said to be
what kind of tree?
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Deciduous
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Name a specific tree that you would find in a temperate deciduous
forest.
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Oak, maple, ash, walnut, hickory, cherry, locust,
birch, ect…
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What do you call a northern coniferous forest that has a long
winter and short growing season?
300 - Answer
Taiga
400Daily Double!
What do the special leaves (needles) of taiga trees do to the
soil as they decompose.
400 - Answer
Make it acidic.
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What taiga mammal’s fur is brown in the
summer and changes to white in the winter?
500 - Answer
Snowshoe Hare
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Which biome type has the most fertile soil of
all biome types?
100 - Answer
Grasslands
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Which biome type has low trees and shrubs that
contain oils that promote burning?
200 - Answer
Chaparral
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Daily Double!In which type of biome would
you find grasses, with a few shrubs and scattered trees, inhabited by many grazing
herbivores?
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Savannas
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Why are there practically no trees in
the grasslands?
400 - Answer
They do not receive enough rain.
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Because savannas are close to the equator, they are
extremely hot. How are savanna grasses adapted
to the hot sun?
500 - Answer
They are long and pointed to avoid it.
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A biome that receives less than 25 cm of rain a year is called a what?
100 - Answer
Desert
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What do you call the permanently frozen soil
in a tundra?
200 - Answer
Permafrost
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Name a type of plant that might grow in the
tundra.
300 - Answer
Mosses, lichens or herbs
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In the desert, amphibians estivate.
What does this mean?
400 - Answer
They bury themselves in the ground and sleep
during the dry season.
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What is the name for desert plant, such as the cactus,
that have thick, fleshy stems that store water and
prevent water loss?
500 - Answer
Succulents
