Biomes Assessment

Question 1

What would make an organism more likely to survive in a new location?

Answer 1

If the new location had similar traits to the original

Question 2

What is a biome?

Answer 2

Areas with a range of conditions

Question 3

What is evidence?

Answer 3

Information used to support or refute a claim

Question 4

What does a tropical rainforest biome include? (describe it)

Answer 4

-Warm and humid year round -20-30 celcius -High rainfall all year

Question 5

What does a desert biome include? (describe it)

Answer 5

• Low precipitation year round
• 10 celcius in winter, 35 in sumemr
• soil is poor nutrients

Question 6

What does a savannah biome include? (describe it)

Answer 6

• Rainfall is from 500-1500 per year
• Unevenly distributed rainfall
• long dry season, and a rainy season
• soil drains quickly
• fires can occur during dry season

Question 7

What does a chaparral biome include? (describe it)

Answer 7

• Receives mostly rain during teh winter months
• Winter, spirng and fall have cool temps, while summers are warmer

Question 8

What does the temperate grasslanf biome include? (describe it)

Answer 8

• Wide range of temps
• precipitation throughout the year
• most rain is in late spring and summer

Question 9

What does the taiga biome include? (describe it)

Answer 9

• Ground is frozen for most of the year
• winters are long and cold with averages of -15 celcius
• summers are short, moist, temperatures are 15 celcius

Question 10

What does a temerate deciduous forest biome include? (describe it)

Answer 10

• four distinct seasons
• avg winter temps fall below freezing
• summer average is 25 celcius
• six month growing period of fertile soil

Question 11

What does a taiga biome include? (describe it)

Answer 11

-Very cold temps and low precipitation (-30 or lower)

Question 12

What is an invasive species?

Answer 12

Non-native species that enters a new area, csusing harm to native species and the environment, the economy, or human health

Question 13

What types of factors will determine whether or not an invasive species will become invasive or not?

Answer 13

What predators it has, rapid growth and maturity, high volume of seed production, ability to out compete native species, or hare hard ot eliminate or control

Question 14

Whatt is a habitat?

Answer 14

Specific location where an organism lives within an ecosystem

Question 15

What is a non-ntive?

Answer 15

When a species is introduceed to an area where it is not naturally found

Question 16

What requirements make a nonnative species invasive?

Answer 16

It must caue harm to thee economy, environment, or human health in some way

Question 17

How can invasive species affect the sustainability of an ecosystem?

Answer 17

They use up all available resources for teh existing exosystem, disrupting the flow

Question 18

What is trageedy of commons?

Answer 18

INdividuals misuse a shared resource in an environment through collective action

-ex: multiple fishing industries depleting fish population to the population to the point where the fish are no longer sustainable