Biomes Homework Flashcards
What is the Climatic Characteristics and Explanation for Tundra?
Temperatures are normally extremely cold, but can get warm in the summers. Tundra winters are long, dark, and cold.
What is the Climatic Characteristics and Explanation for Boreal/ Taiga?
After the permanent ice caps and tundra, taiga is the terrestrial biome with the lowest annual average temperatures.
What is the Climatic Characteristics and Explanation for Temperate?
The temperate climates are characterised by an average temperature of the coldest month. They occur at higher elevations in lower latitudes.
What is the Climatic Characteristics and Explanation for the Savannah?
Conditions are warm to hot in all seasons, but significant rainfall occurs for only a few months each year, about October to March.
What is the Climatic Characteristics and Explanation for the Desert?
In some deserts, temperatures rise so high that people are at risk of dehydration and even death. At night, these areas cool quickly.
What is the Climatic Characteristics and Explanation for the Tropical Rainforest?
Rainforests are located in the tropical climate region. They are hot and wet all year round – this creates a humid climate. The annual rainfall is high as it rains almost every day.
What is 5 Animal and plant characteristics of Tundra?
Arctic Moss, Arctic Willow, Caribou Moss, Labrador Tea, Arctic Poppy, Cotton Grass, Lichens and Moss.
What is 5 Animal and plant characteristics of Boreal/Taiga?
Coniferous trees and some deciduous trees. There are many animals adapted to live in the taiga, including deer, bears, insects, and birds.
What is the Animal and plant characteristics of Temperate?
Hardwood broadleaved trees, most of which lose their leaves each winter, for example, oak and beech. Animals include rabbits, deer and fox.
What are the Animal and plant characteristics of Savannah?
Deep root system, thick bark, leaf seasonality, water storing organ, and presence of spines and Zebras, wildebeests, elephants, giraffes, ostriches, gazelles and buffalo
What are the Animal and plant characteristics of Desert?
The plants are often slower growing types which require less energy (food and water). Animals of the desert need to adapt to intense heat and lack of water and shelters
What are the Animal and plant characteristics of Tropical Rainforest?
The main animals are monkeys, Blue Morpho Butterfly, Okapi, Three-Toed Sloth, Jaguar, Capybara, Toucan, and Poison Dart Frog. The main plants are ferns, lichens, mosses, orchids, bromeliads, and of course many types of trees. including the rubber tree.
What is the Description of location in Tundra?
Tundra is found in the regions just below the ice caps of the Arctic, extending across North America, to Europe, and Siberia in Asia.
What is the Description of location in Boreal/Taiga?
The taiga is a forest of the cold, subarctic region.
What is the Description of location in temperate?
The temperate climates of Earth occur in the middle latitudes, which span between the tropics and the polar regions of Earth.
