Biome Test

Front 1

what is climate?

Back 1

a generalization of weather over time

Front 2

what 3 things does climate affect?

Back 2

vegitation, animal life and patterns of human settlement

Front 3

what are the 3 climate zones?

Back 3

sub arctic, middle latitude and hot tropical legions

Front 4

which zone do we live in?

Back 4

middle latitude

Front 5

in the tropics the sun

Back 5

rises and sets at the same time

Front 6

in the tropics the tempature never

Back 6

drops below freezing

Front 7

name the four tropical regions

Back 7

wet/dry monsoon tropics, rainy tropics, subtropical/tropical desert and tropical highlands

Front 8

are tropical regions always hot?

Back 8

no

Front 9

list four characteristics of the rainy tropics

Back 9

ground is dark, humid, year round heat and dense forsts

Front 10

what is the average tempature in the tropical rainforest?

Back 10

80 degrees farenheit

Front 11

what is the average rainfall in the tropical rainforest?

Back 11

160-400 inches of rain per year

Front 12

where is the tropical rainforest found?

Back 12

along the equator

Front 13

how much of the Earth's surface is tropical rainforest?

Back 13

2%

Front 14

what are the four levels of the rainforest?

Back 14

the forest floor, the understory, the canopy and the emergent layer

Front 15

which level is the most complex?

Back 15

the canopy

Front 16

list two characteristics of the emergent layer

Back 16

most sunlight, trees poke out at least 160ft

Front 17

list two characteristics of the canopy

Back 17

umbrella most diverse

Front 18

list two characteristics of the understory

Back 18

vines, trunks of trees

Front 19

list two characteristics of the forest floor

Back 19

thin soil, few plants

Front 20

list 4 rainforest foods

Back 20

orange, grapefruit, chocolate, vanilla

Front 21

list 3 other products other than food from the rainforest

Back 21

medicine, rubber and lumber

Front 22

discuss two ways we can help save the rainforest

Back 22

we can teach the farmers how to replant and to frm trees. tree farming is when you grow trees to cut them down and then replant.

Front 23

what are the 5 levels of organisation in a biome. start from smallest to largest

Back 23

organism, population, community, ecosystem and biome.

Front 24

how do biotic and abiotic factors differ?

Back 24

biotic factors are living things and abiotic factors are nonliving things

Front 25

population

Back 25

all the members of one species in a particular area

Front 26

community

Back 26

all the different populations that live together

Front 27

species

Back 27

a group of organisms that are physically similar and can reproduce with each other to produce offspring

Front 28

habitat

Back 28

the place where an organism lives and that provides the things that provides the organism its needs

Front 29

ecosystem

Back 29

all the living and nonliving things that affect in a particular area

Front 30

natural selection

Back 30

the process by which individuals that are better adapted to their environment and can pass those adaptations on to their offspring

Front 31

predation

Back 31

an interaction when an organism kills another

Front 32

predator

Back 32

the organism that kills the other

Front 33

prey

Back 33

the organism that is killed

Front 34

commensalism

Back 34

when one organism is benifitted and the other one is not benifitted or harmed

Front 35

mutualism

Back 35

when both organisms are benifitted

Front 36

parasitism

Back 36

when an organism lives in or on another organism and harms it

Front 37

symbiosis

Back 37

a close relationship between organisms when one or both organisms are benifitted

Front 38

competition

Back 38

the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat wth limited recources

Front 39

adaptation

Back 39

behaviors and physical characteristics of species that allows them to live successfully in their environment

Front 40

be able to identify a food chain and tell all of its members

Back 40

a food chain is the order of organisms when what eats what and what gets eaten. the farther up the chain the better

Front 41

give a food chain

Back 41

grass, grasshopper, rabbit, hawk

Front 42

producer

Back 42

an organism that makes its own food

Front 43

consumer

Back 43

organism that gets its food from eating other organisms

Front 44

carnivores

Back 44

organisms that only eat meat

Front 45

herbivores

Back 45

organisms that only eat plants and fruit

Front 46

omnivores

Back 46

organisms that eat both meat and plants

Front 47

decomposer

Back 47

an organism that eats the remains of dead animals

Front 48

name 3 cycles that are neccessary for life

Back 48

carbon dioxide/oxygen, nitrogen, water cycle

Front 49

how do we get the oxygen that we need

Back 49

from trees and plants

Front 50

how do we get the nitrogen that we need

Back 50

by eating plants

Front 51

be able to label parts of the water cycle

Back 51

evaporation from water, evaporationn from plants, condensation and precipitation

Front 52

know the six land based biomes on their descriptions

Back 52

deciduous forest, dessert, boreal forest, rainforest taundra and grassland

Front 53

what are the 3 main biomes of the United states

Back 53

deciduous forest, dessert and grassland