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biology test chap 5
Biomes
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what is a bimoe? | a group of ecosystems with similar climate |
| Which biome has very hot days and coo nights with little precipitaion, few plants, and poor soil? | desert |
| This has mild summers and cold winters, moderate precipitation, rich topsoil over clay, hardwood trees, and many mammals and other animals. this bimoe is? | Deciduous forest |
| This biome is located in the interiors of continents, hot summers and cool in the winter, moderate to low precip, mostly grasses an small shrubs, and can have large mammals or a variety of smaller ones | Grassland |
| Occurs in higher latitudes such as northern america or Russia, has very cold winters and cool summers with moderate or low precip,. mostly evergreen trees with variety of animals in the summer | taiga |
| Far northern latitudes where there are harsh winters and cool summers, has poor soil with permafrost beneath the surface. Plants include grasses and wildflowers, and animals might be caribu, foxes, rodents, etc. | tudnra |
| There are two types of water ecosystems. one is the oceans of the world, this is called? | saltwater (Marines) ecosystem |
| What ecosystem might include such things as lakes, rivers, and swamps? | Freshwater ecosystem |
| The Sahara, Mojavem and Gobi are examples of this biome | Desert |
| In which biome would you most likely find many animals with white fur? | tundra |
| Which biome is made up of trees that do not lose their leaves in the winter? | Coniferous forest |
| This biome has 4 seasons | Deciduous forest |
| which biome has a rainy season and a dry season? | savanna |
| What is the biome called where fresh and salt water meet? | estuary |
| What is the average weather in a particular place over a long period of time called? | Climate |
| Not many trees grow in a grassland biome because? | little rain |
| A rolling grassland with bushes and grasses but not enough rainfall to support trees | Prairie |
| A grassland with scatteredd trees is called a? | Savanna |
| what is the most abundant plant in the water biome? | algae |
| Mt.St, Helens is an example of a? | Secondary succession |
| A land formed by a volcano is an example of a? | Primary succession |
| the permanently frozen ground beneath the surface of the tundra is known as ____? | Permafrost |
| Give two of the four reasons given in class that organisms disperse | movement of organisms one place to another, wind water, or living things |
| Give two of the four reasons discussed in class that are the causes of extinction, aside from natural causes | Poaching, pollution |
| Name two animals that you may find in the desert biome | desert foxes and roadrunners |
| Name two animals you would find in the coniferous biome | wolves, moose |
| Explain the difference between endangered and extinction | extinction-all parts of the species are gone Endangered- theres a small number left, about to become extinct |
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