lesson 5

Question 1

Biome

Answer 1

a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat,

Question 2

Grasslands

Answer 2

a large open area of country covered with grass, especially one used for grazing.

Question 3

Taiga

Answer 3

the sometimes swampy coniferous forest of high northern latitudes, especially that between the tundra and steppes of Siberia and North America.

Question 4

Tundra

Answer 4

a vast, flat, treeless Arctic region of Europe, Asia, and North America in which the subsoil is permanently frozen.

Question 5

desert

Answer 5

a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all:

Question 6

Deciduous forset

Answer 6

a type of forest characterized by trees that seasonally shed their leaves

Question 7

Tropical rain forest

Answer 7

a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.