Part 1: How are biomes distributed?

Question 1

1. What is the biosphere?

Answer 1

a) The layer of the earth which contains all living forms of life.

Question 2

2. What is an ecosystem?

Answer 2

a) The connections between living things (plants, animals and organisms) and non-livings things (water, weather and climate) in a particular place.

Question 3

3. What is a biome?

Answer 3

a) A global scale ecosystem.

Question 4

4. What is climate?

Answer 4

a) The normal weather in a place

Question 5

5. What is geology?

Answer 5

a) The type of rocks in a place

Question 6

6. What is vegetation?

Answer 6

a) Plant life

Question 7

7. What do biomes have in common with similar places

Answer 7

a) Climatic
b) Geology
c) Vegetation
d) Animals

Question 8

8. What are the main global biomes?

Answer 8

a) Tundra
b) Temperate Forest
c) Taiga Forest
d) Savannah
e) Desert
f) Tropical Rainforest

Question 9

9. Give an example of tundra

Answer 9

a) Arctic Circle

Question 10

10. Give an example of Temperate Forest

Answer 10

a) Epping Forest, UK

Question 11

11. Give an example of Taiga Forest

Answer 11

a) Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, USA

Question 12

12. Give an example of Savanna

Answer 12

a) Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Question 13

13. Give an example of Desert

Answer 13

a) Sahara Desert, Northern Africa

Question 14

14. Give an example of Tropical Rainforest

Answer 14

a) Amazon, Brazil

Question 15

15. What is biodiversity?

Answer 15

a) The variety of living species in an ecosystem or area.

Question 16

16. What is a biotic factor?

Answer 16

a) The living parts of the ecosystem: Flora (plants), Fauna (animals) and organisms.

Question 17

17. What is an abiotic factor?

Answer 17

a) The non-living parts of the ecosystem (water, soil and climate).

Question 18

18. What is precipitation?

Answer 18

a) Moisture from the sky e.g. rain

Question 19

19. What is photosynthesis

Answer 19

a) When plants make oxygen from CO2

Question 20

20. What is temperature?

Answer 20

a) How hot or cold it is

Question 21

21. What is latitude?

Answer 21

a) Distance from the equator

Question 22

22. What are seasons?

Answer 22

a) Changes in temperature and weather during the year

Question 23

23. What is a growing season?

Answer 23

a) The amount of time in a year that plants can grow

Question 24

24. What is a permeable rock?

Answer 24

a) Water can flow through

Question 25

25. What is an impermeable rock?

Answer 25

a) Water cannot flow through

Question 26

26. What does waterlogged mean?

Answer 26

a) When soil is full of water

Question 27

27. What is altitude?

Answer 27

a) The height of land above sea level

Question 28

28. What is diurnal range?

Answer 28

a) The temperature difference between daytime and night time

Question 29

29. What is the equator?

Answer 29

a) A line around the centre of the world

Question 30

30. What is the tropic of cancer?

Answer 30

a) A line around the world north of the equator

Question 31

31. What is the tropic of Capricorn?

Answer 31

a) A line around the world south of the equator

Question 32

32. What is an atmospheric cell?

Answer 32

a) The way in which air circulates in the atmosphere

Question 33

33. Name the three types of atmospheric cell

Answer 33

a) Hadley cell b) Polar cell c) Ferrel cell

Question 34

34. What happens when there is low pressure in an atmospheric cell

Answer 34

a) High levels of precipitation

Question 35

35. What happens when there is high pressure in an atmospheric cell

Answer 35

a) Low levels of precipitation

Question 36

36. What is the global distribution of tropical rainforests?

Answer 36

a) On the Equator | b) Between the tropics

Question 37

37. Why is the rainforest there?

Answer 37

a) high precipitation 200-3000 mm per year b) low air pressure c) high temperatures all year round 25 °C-30 °C

Question 38

38. What is the global distribution of deserts?

Answer 38

a) On the tropics

Question 39

39. Why are the deserts there?

Answer 39

a) Low precipitation Less than 250 mm a year b) high pressure c) Large diurnal temperature range

Question 40

40. What is the global distribution of temperate / boreal forest?

Answer 40

a) 50 °N - 60 °N of the equator

Question 41

41. Just south of the Arctic Circle

Answer 41

a) Why is temperate forest there?

Question 42

42. Low precipitation less than 500mm per year

Answer 42

a) Mild summers (10 °C-20 °C) | b) Cold winters (below 0 °C)

Question 43

43. What is the global distribution of savanna?

Answer 43

a) Between the tropics

Question 44

44. Why is savanna there?

Answer 44

a) Hot all year 25 °C and 35 °C. b) 500 mm - 1000 mm of rainfall per year c) Wet and dry seasons

Question 45

45. What is the global distribution of tundra?

Answer 45

a) Within the Arctic Circle

Question 46

46. Why is the tundra within the Arctic Circle?

Answer 46

a) Low temperatures all year round b) Low precipitation (less than 250mm) c) Short daylight hours in the winter