Highest_priority_cards_6_-_all_duplicates Flashcards
Q: How do desert animals get much of their water?
From the food they eat
Q: How much of the Earth’s land surface is covered by desert?
About one-fifth
Q: Desert dwelling animals at the zoo
-Meerkat
-Desert tortoise
-Giant desert centipede
Q: What is the biome of Antarctica?
Most of Antarctica is a cold/polar desert. Less than 10” of rain.
Some parts, including surrounding islands, have milder climate, more plants (moss, algae, some grass), soil with more organic matter, and are considered to be tundra.
Antarctic tundra is not as diverse or complex as the Arctic tundra.
Q: Reindeer adaptations for tundra
Splayed hooves: helpful in snow.
Large nose: sense smell to find food hidden under snow, locate danger, and recognize direction. Noses also act as heat exchangers, warming the inhaled arctic air before it enters their lungs and retaining the heat from the exhaled air.
Q: Arctic species at the zoo
Wolverine
Grizzly bear (also in temperate forests)
[still true?] During the Christmas holiday season, reindeer.
Q: Temperate forest vegetation, rainfall
Mixture of coniferous and deciduous trees.
Dominated by relatively few species, in contrast to the tropical forests which contain thousands of species, none of which dominates.
Wind pollinated species are predominant.
Yearly precipitation is 30–60 in.
Well-defined growing season.
Cold winter.
Q: Temperate forest wildlife
Dominated by relatively few species, in contrast to the tropical forests which contain thousands of species, none of which dominates.
Birds are plentiful; many insects for them to feed upon.
Quite a few larger animals.
Many animals hibernate during the harshest months, with many birds migrating.
Predators have a hard time finding food during harsh months and may travel long distances to find sufficient food.
Q: Temperate rainforest vegetation, rainfall, diversity
Over 80 inches of rain, falls throughout year.
Very lush and wet.
Cooler than tropical rainforests
Rich in plant and animal species; diversity is greater in tropical rainforest
Q: Tropical rainforest vegetation, rainfall, diversity
Richest and most diverse biome on earth.
Over 80 inches of rain, falls throughout year.
Warm and moist year round.
Vegetation dense.
Year-long growing season.
Rapid cycling of nutrients.
Soils tend to have very little organic matter since most of the organic carbon is tied up in the standing biomass of the plants.
Scientists estimate that more than half of all the world’s plant and animal species live in tropical rainforests, with many more yet to be discovered.
Flowering plants predominant; fertilized mainly by insects, birds, and bats.
Only tallest trees get light; most vegetation adapted to grow in almost permanent shade.
Note: only a small percentage of tropical forests are rainforests.
Q: Example of temperate rainforest
Along the coast of the Pacific Northwest from Northern California up through Oregon, Washington, and into Canada.
Q: Tropical rainforest animals at zoo
[probably needs updating]
Two-toed sloth
[?] Howler monkeys
Black and white and red ruffed lemur
Green-winged macaw
Many birds, reptiles, and amphibians in tropical rainforest building.
Some tropical rainforest arthropods in insect zoo.
Q: How do grassland grazers/browsers reduce competition for resources?
Petition resources to coexist, eating from all different parts of the shrub or grass shoot
Some eat only the tips, some eat the middle, and some only eat new shoots or roots.
Grazers eat grass on the ground; browsers eat vegetation on bushes and trees.
Q: Zoo animals that inhabit grasslands
Lion
Giraffe
Zebra
Kudu [still have kudu?]
Black rhino
Wallaroo
Prairie dog
Q: Which biomes have the fewest species?
The tundra and desert biomes occupy the most extreme environments, with little or no moisture and extremes of temperature. These two biomes have the fewest numbers of species due to the stringent environmental conditions.
