Ecosystems

Question 1

What is the definition of biome

Answer 1

An ecosystem on a global scale - large bands of land, running roughly parallel to the equator, that share the same types of plants and animals because they share the same general dimate.

Question 2

What is the definition of ecosystem

Answer 2

A natural system made up of living things (animals, plants, bacteria and fungi) and their non-living environment (the atmosphere, the rocks, water, the climate) and all the interactions between them. This could be something as big as a forest, or as small as a garden pond or under a stone.

Question 3

Where can you find tropical rainforests

Answer 3

Around the equator

Question 4

What are the different layers of a rainforest

Answer 4

Emergents, canopy, under canopy, forest floor

Question 5

How are tropical rainforests adapted to their surroundings

Answer 5

Drip tips - let’s rain drip off
Liliana - vines that reach the sunlight by looping around tree branches
Buttress roots - to stop trees from falling over
Epiphytes - plants that perch on high branches and feed off rain and rotting things

Question 6

What are the major threats to the rainforest

Answer 6

Deforestation

Question 7

What are the impacts of deforestation

Answer 7

Threatened species
People live there
Loosing medicine

Question 8

What are two regeneration projects

Answer 8

Redd - pay countries that deforest to leave them alone
National parks - conservation