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GeneralFacts

Rain-Forests

TemperateForests &

Taiga

Savannas, Grasslands &

Chaparral

Deserts andTundra

100

What do you call a large region with a specific

climate, plants and animals?

100 - Answer

Biome

200

Biomes are named for the plants that live

there, but what major factor influences what

plants are there?

200 - Answer

Climate

300

What do you call the height of an object above sea level?

300 - Answer

Altitude

400

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?

500 - Answer

It gets colder.

100

What type of biome is always warm and

receives between 200 and 450 inches of rain

every year?

100 - Answer

A Tropical Rainforest

200

Very little light reaches this layer of the

rainforest and plants that like shade grow

here.

200 - Answer

The Understory

300

The largest threat to the rainforest biome is this

(when land that is inhabited by an

organism is destroyed).

300 - Answer

Habitat Destruction

400

In the tropical rainforest, most of the nutrients are not in the soil. Where are they?

400 - Answer

In the plants.

500

What do you call a plant that uses a tree surface

for a place to live?

500 - Answer

An Epiphyte

100

A tree that loses its leaves every year is said to be

what kind of tree?

100 - Answer

Deciduous

200

Name a specific tree that you would find in a temperate deciduous

forest.

200 - Answer

Oak, maple, ash, walnut, hickory, cherry, locust,

birch, ect…

300

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.

500

What taiga mammal’s fur is brown in the

summer and changes to white in the winter?

500 - Answer

Snowshoe Hare

100

Which biome type has the most fertile soil of

all biome types?

100 - Answer

Grasslands

200

Which biome type has low trees and shrubs that

contain oils that promote burning?

200 - Answer

Chaparral

300

Daily Double!In which type of biome would

you find grasses, with a few shrubs and scattered trees, inhabited by many grazing

herbivores?

300 - Answer

Savannas

400

Why are there practically no trees in

the grasslands?

400 - Answer

They do not receive enough rain.

500

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.

100

A biome that receives less than 25 cm of rain a year is called a what?

100 - Answer

Desert

200

What do you call the permanently frozen soil

in a tundra?

200 - Answer

Permafrost

300

Name a type of plant that might grow in the

tundra.

300 - Answer

Mosses, lichens or herbs

400

In the desert, amphibians estivate.

What does this mean?

400 - Answer

They bury themselves in the ground and sleep

during the dry season.

500

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