Biosphere & Ecosystems

Question 1

What is a biome?

Answer 1

A large- scale community of organisms that have evolved from the interact of the earths spheres: The Lithosphere, the Hydrosphere and the Atmosphere.

Question 2

Name all the different layers of a rainforest staring from the bottom

Answer 2

The forest floor, the understory- the shrub layer, the canopy and the emergent layer

Question 3

What does the shrub layer do?

Answer 3

Consists of ferns- shade loving plants and fungi, due to the lack of sunlight.

Question 4

What does the under canopy layer consist of?

Answer 4

Small trees waiting for their chance to shoot up to be a canopy.

Question 5

What does the emergent layer/ canopy layer consist of?

Answer 5

It consists of fully grown trees. Which grow long and straight and branches to great heights- in competition to capture sunlight

Question 6

What does hydrosphere mean?

Answer 6

High humidity in the air, heavy rainfall, water on the vegetation, and rivers .

Question 7

What does atmosphere mean?

Answer 7

Almost daily heavy rainfall and high temperatures throughout the year, which is the idea for continual rapid plant growth.

Question 8

Lithosphere meaning

Answer 8

Rainforests then dot have poor soils, but the climate means that the top humus layer is rich in minerals due to the rapid decay of vegetation of the forest floor