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Biomes
Question | Answer |
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Does not fall into a specific category of biome | MOUNTAINS AND ICE |
Includes ponds and lakes | MARINE |
Contain coniferous trees | BOREAL FOREST |
Can also be referred to as taiga | BOREAL FOREST |
Extremely cold, dry, land biome | TUNDRA |
Algae are primary producers | MARINE |
Receives less than 25 cm of rain per year | DESERT |
Trees form layers such as the canopy and understory | TROPICAL RAINFOREST |
Can be classified as prairie or savannah | GRASSLAND |
Too cool and too far north to be considered tropical | TEMPERATE RAINFOREST |
Undergoes large shifts in temperatures during the course of a day | DESERT |
Trees shed leaves and grow new ones each year | DECIDUOUS FOREST |
Fir, hemlock, and spruce are trees adapted to this environment | BOREAL FOREST |
Has frozen soil known as permafrost | TUNDRA |
Organisms must adapt to strong current | FRESHWATER |
Includes estuaries, intertidal zones, neritic zones, shallow and deep zones | MARINE |
Includes Greenland and Antarctica | MOUNTAINS AND ICE |
Northwestern coast of US | TEMPERATE RAINFOREST |
Home to large herbivores | GRASSLAND |
Organisms are adapted to lack of rain and extreme temperatures | DESERT |