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Biomes Flashcards

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Read pg 5 g

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Do it you buff 🌚

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2
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Name 3 characteristics of a dessert biome

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High temperatures
low humidity
Very little rain fall

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Dessert biomes have what types of soil

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Shallow and rocky very little organic matter and salt

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How have animals and plants learned to survive in dessert biomes

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Plants: are able to store water in them and use there stems for photosynthesis
Animals:have learnt to survive with out much water and burrow in the day to keep out the heat

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5
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What 2 groups can an aquatic biome bein

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Freshwater biomes

And marine biomes

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What is and example of fresh water biomes

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Lakes rivers ponds steams

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What’s an example of a marine biome

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Oceans coral reefs seas

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8
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How much do desserts take up of the earth

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20%

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9
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How much does water take up on the earth

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73%

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10
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What types of abiotic factors does water need for life

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Sunlight,temperatureand salt content

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Why are aquatic biomes so important

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They hold lots of animals and flora

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12
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What are the four major types of desert biomes

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Hot and dry ds semi arid ds coastel ds cold ds

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13
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How much does marine biomes take up of the world

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73%

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In what way does the marine biomes help with the sky clouds stuff ☁️💦💦☔️☔️🌈🌌🌄🌅🗾🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🍷

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It forms the basis of the water cycle,and help with could formation and precipitation

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What are the three mane forest biomes

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Tropical rainforest temperate forests and boreal forests

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16
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Temperatures in the first biomes are……………..”………..🍬

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Hot

17
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What do rain forests do

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Store carbon and play an important role in climate change source lots of raw materials

18
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How much do forest biomes take up if the world

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30%

19
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Humidity is high in the forest biomes why

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Because most of them have 200ml of rain a year

20
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What is the soil like in forest biomes

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Loose and airy

21
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What type of plants do you get in a forest biomes

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Big trees,ferns and palms

22
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How have plants in forest biomes adapted

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Shrubs on the ground have learnt to survive with very little sunlight

23
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Name 9 types of animals that would live in a forest

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Birds, bats, insects ,skunks ,deer ,squirrels,foxes,reptiles

24
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How have animals in forest biomes learnt to survive

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They have learnt the ones on the ground have learnt to survive with little light
Why?
And others can fly above the canopy to get there sunlight

25
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What are the two types of grasslands

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Savannah and temperate grasslands

26
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What is a climatic savannah

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A spa aha that is deprived of a forest by climate

27
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What is a edaphic savanna

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If they are kept by soils to prevent a forest

28
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What is a derived savannah

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A savanna that is ruined i to not becoming a forest by people and elephants who rune the trees trying to grow there

29
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What is soil like in a savanna

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Thin layered and do not hold water

30
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What is the weather like in a savanna

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Moderate rainfall high summers and freezing winters

31
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Name 6 animals that live in a savanna

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Loins hyenas snakes giraffes Buffaloes insects

32
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In temperate grasslands what types of animals are there name 7

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Deer owls rabbits spiders Hawks mice foxes

33
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Name the 2 types of tundra biomes

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Arctic tundra and alpine tundra

34
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What is the weather like in tundra biomes

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Freezing with little rain

35
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What types of plants do you get in tundra biomes

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Short and grow close together they include mosses heaths lichen

36
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Name 2animals in tundra biomes herbivores 1st

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Canrnivors

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Hares squerills

Polar bears artic foxes
Birds and insects fish

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