9th ENV BIOMES 6.1 WHAT IS A BIOME
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| BIOMES | A___________________ is a large regions
characterized by a specific type of climate
and certain types of plant and animal
communities. EACH BIOME IS MADE UP OF MANY INDIVIDUAL ECOSYSTEMS.
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| VEGETATIONS | Biomes are described by their ____________________________
because plants that grow in an area
determine the other organisms that can live
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| ADAPTATIONS | Plants in a particular biome have characteristics, specialized structures, or ____________________________t hat allow the plants to survive in that biome.
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| SIZE SHAPE COLOR | These adaptations incude_______ _________ and ___________. For eample, plants in the tundra tend to be short because they cannot obtain enough water to grow larger,
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| CLIMATE | ____________________ is the regular weather conditions in an area over a
long period of time.
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| MAIN FACTOR | Climate is the __________________ _________________i n determining which plants can grow in a certain area, which in turn defines the biome.
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| TEMPERATURES PRECIPITATION | _________________________ and ______________________ are the two most important factors that determine a region's climate,
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| NOT SURVIVE | Most organisms are adapted to live within a particular range of temperatures and will __________ _______________ a temperature too far above or below their range.
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| WATER | Precipitation also limit the organisms that can be found in a biome because all organisms need _____________, and the bigger the animal, the more water it needs.
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| SHRUBS | Biomes that do not receive enough rainfall to support large trees support communities dominated by small trees ______________ and grasses.
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| CACTUSES | In biomes where rainfall is not frequent, the vegetation is mostly_______________ and desert shrubs, to extreme cases, lack of rainfall results in no plants, no matter what the temperature is.
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| TALLER DENSER | The ____________ the temperature and precipation are, the ____________ and _________________________ the vegetation is.
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| LATITUDE | is the distance north or south of
the equator and is expressed in degrees.
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| ALTITUDE | _________________________ is the height of an object above
a reference point, such as sea level or the Earth's surface.
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| CLIMATE | _________________________ varies with latitude and altitude.
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| COLDER | For example, climate gets colder as latitude and altitude increase, This is why it gets_____________________ as you move further up a mountain.
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| CHANGE | As latitude and altitude increases, biomes and vegetables _____________,
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| EQUATOR POLES | Trees of tropical rainforests usually grow closer to the ______________, while mosses and lichens of the tundra grow closer to the _________________.
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| TEMPERATURES | The______________________regions includes biomes such as temperature forests and grasslands which usually have moderate temperatures and fertile soil that is ideal for agriculture.
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