Characteristics Of Biomes

Question 1

What are biomes classified by?

Answer 1

Climate
Vegetation
Geography

Question 2

Natural changes

Answer 2

Caused by environmental factors

Ex: volcanic activity, temp changes etc.

Question 3

Artificial changes

Answer 3

Caused by human activity

Question 4

What continents were in the Cambrian period

Answer 4

Gondwana
Laurentia
Siberia
Baltic’s

Question 5

How was the climate during the Cambrian period

Answer 5

Temperate global climate

Question 6

What organisms were living in the Cambrian period

Answer 6

Algae
Bacteria
Marine invertebrates are prominent life forms

Question 7

Were there plants during the Cambrian period

Answer 7

No

Question 8

During the Devonian period what plates were there

Answer 8

Gondwana and Euramerica

Question 9

What started to evolve during the Devonian period

Answer 9

Forests and land plants

Question 10

What types of organism started to appear during the Devonian period

Answer 10

Vertebrates

Question 11

What continent formed during the Carboniferous period

Answer 11

Pangaea

Question 12

What type of organism evolved during the Carboniferous period

Answer 12

Four-legged vertebrates

Question 13

During the Carboniferous period there was an increase in the number of ……….

Answer 13

Land based organisms

Question 14

In what period did the separation of Pangaea began

Answer 14

Triassic period

Question 15

What was the global climate like during the Triassic period

Answer 15

Arid and dry

Question 16

What changes in the environment occurred during the Triassic period

Answer 16

Formation of lakes and rivers

Question 17

What organisms appeared during the Triassic period

Answer 17

Large amphibians, ferns, and gymnosperm forests

Question 18

Which period started having savanna regions

Answer 18

Triassic period

Question 19

What period was known as the “Age of the Dinosaurs”

Answer 19

Jurassic period

Question 20

What evolved during the Jurassic period

Answer 20

Large land based animals and marine vertebrates

Question 21

Ferns, ginkos, cycads, and conifers appeared during which period

Answer 21

Jurassic

Question 22

During the Jurassic period there was an appearance of …….

Answer 22

Mammals

Question 23

During which period did the dinosaurs go extinct

Answer 23

Cretaceous period

Question 24

The full split of Pangaea happened during the ……… period

Answer 24

Cretaceous

Question 25

During the Cretaceous period, there was an appearance of ……….

Answer 25

angiosperms

Question 26

The evolutions of forests happened during ……

Answer 26

the Cretaceous period

Question 27

During the Econe/Miocene Epochs there were high levels of …….

Answer 27

precipitation

Question 28

During which period did the change of ocean circulation and global heat transport occur

Answer 28

Econe/Miocene period

Question 29

What caused changes in ocean circulation and global heat transport

Answer 29

the creation of the circum-Antarctic current

Question 30

During the Econe/Miocene period, there was the appearance of ………..

Answer 30

large mammals

Question 31

When did Earth assume its modern configuration

Answer 31

Econe/Miocene period

Question 32

When did the evolution of humans occur

Answer 32

Pleistocene Epoch

Question 33

When did the most recent Ice Age occur

Answer 33

Pleistocene Epoch

Question 34

Quaternary Epoch is also known as

Answer 34

modern Earth

Question 35

Human impact on the tundra

Answer 35

mining of natural minerals
oil drilling
erosion due to traffic 
radioactive pollution
overgrazing by caribou

Question 36

Human impact on coral reefs

Answer 36

contamination by sewage, fertilizer, and sediment runoff
smothering due to increased amount of algae
overfishing
tourism
coral bleaching

Question 37

Human impact on rainforests

Answer 37

logging
mining
oil drilling
agriculture
construction

Question 38

Paleobotany

Answer 38

study of fossilized plants

Question 39

What can Paleobotany determine

Answer 39

connections between prehistoric and modern plants