Questions:
1) Name three key plants common to tropical grasslands.
2) What are the six different places on Earth where coral reefs are found?
3) At what altitude does the alpine biome begin?
4) What is the major reason alpine plants are very short?
5) Name the four types of wetlands.
6) Name and describe the layer of soil unique to tundra regions?
7) What are some ways humans use and/or profit from temperate grasslands?
8) Where is the tundra biome located?
9) What is the average rainfall (or range of rainfall) in the chaparral biome?
10) At what latitudes can taiga/boreal forests be found?
11) What are the three “light” zones in the ocean biome?
12) Why is the soil of a tropical rainforest typically poor quality?
13) What are some of the features that make camels particularly adapted to desert life?
14) What is at least one reason estuaries are ecologically important?
15) Name three things that makes something a temperate forest.
16) What are some things that you would find in the limnetic zone of a freshwater pond or lake?
Images of trifolds and biome-in-a-boxes:
Slide presentations:
Tundra (Download link into .ppt to try and hear the narration.)
Tundra
Ocean
Desert
Taiga/Boreal Forest (presentation)
Taiga/Boreal Forest (actual slides)
Videos of presentations:
All are available at THIS link and will be through 1/14.
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