Name:



Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES #1

Pre – Video Quiz: True or False

Directions: Label each statement with a “T” if it is true or “F” if it is false.

___T_1. The word “biome” is a name to define an area that has a major community of plants

and animals.

__F__2. Climate has nothing to do with where plants and animals live.

__F__3. All the plants and animals that live in the ocean’s coastal waters biome also live in the deep ocean biome.

Short Answer:

Answer the following in the spaces provided. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.

4. What type of trees annually lose their leaves?

Deciduous trees

5. Name two fresh water environments.

River

lake

6. What is the dominant plant life found in the tropical rain forest and the temperate rain

forest?

trees

7. What is the name of the biome which has a geographical area that receives little rainfall and whose terrain is often dominated by rocks, sand, and overall poor soil?

desert

8. Many of the grasslands today are used for what purpose?

farming

9. What is another name for the temperate shrublands whose plants are able to survive the

destructive forces of fire?

Temperate rainforest

10. The frozen subsoil of the tundra biome often prevents the existence of what type of plant life?

grass

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

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INTERACTIVITY WORKSHEET

TERRESTRIAL BIOMES #2

A.

Directions: Review the categories listed below. While viewing the program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES, record the information presented next to the proper category listed on this worksheet.

1. Biome’s name: tundra

2. Origin of name: russian

3. Characteristic landscape: treeless plains that is very cold

4. Climate: exteremly cold and dry

5. Soil conditions: little or none

6. Dominant plant life: grass

7. Dominant animal life: birds and caribou

8. Main feature: south of arctic circle, cold, dry

B. Using the above information and the visuals presented in BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES, draw a typical landscape of the above biome. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES

INTERACTIVITY WORKSHEET AQUATIC BIOMES #3

Fresh Water

Directions: Review the categories listed below. While viewing the program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES, record the information presented next to the proper category listed on this worksheet.

A. Locations of fresh water

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

B. Standing water: Fed with mineral and nutrient-poor content water

1. Description of water:

2. Oxygen content:

3. Description of algae growth:

4. Animal life:

C. Standing water: Fed with large quantities of sediments and high concentrations of nutrients.

1. Description of water:

2. Oxygen content:

3. Description of algae growth:

4. Animal life:

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES

INTERACTIVITY WORKSHEET AQUATIC BIOMES #4

Marine

Directions: Review the categories listed below. While viewing the program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES, record the information presented next to the proper category listed on this worksheet.

1. Name of biome:

2. Location:

3. Plant life:

4. Animal life:

5. Important characteristics:

1. Name of biome:

2. Location:

3. Plant life:

4. Animal life:

5. Important characteristics:

1. Name of biome:

2. Location:

3. Plant life:

4.Animal life:

5. Important characteristics:

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES

VOCABULARY WORKSHEET #5

Directions: Match the letter of the definition with its term by putting the letter in the blank.

_G____ 1. decomposition

___D__ 2. agriculture

___N__ 3. tropics

_____ 4. alpine

__S___ 5. tundra

__O___ 6. algae

___E__ 7. biomes

___J__ 8. deciduous

__M___ 9. temperate

____L_ 10. grassland

__X___ 11. latitude

___Q__ 12. conifers

___C__ 13. predator

____I_ 14. terrestrial

___H__ 15. aquatic

___K__ 16. precipitation

___T__ 17. savanna

___W__ 18. vents

__P___ 19. transpiration

___B__ 20. nutrient

___F__ 21. ecosystem

___A__ 22. desert

____V_ 23. community

__U___ 24. climate

xA. barren, often sandy, area N. line of latitude 23 degrees north or south of the equator

xB. any chemical that an organism must take O. marine or fresh water plants with no true stems or leaves

from its environment in order to survive

xC. animal that preys on another organism P. loss of water by evaporation through the plant’s pores

D. of, or living on, land Q. of cone-bearing trees, such as pines and their relatives

xE. geographical areas filled with a major R. of high mountains

community of plant and animal life

xF. all the organisms living in a particular area S. a treeless geographic area where the subsoil is frozen

xG. the process by which organisms cause T. grassy flat land in hot regions with few trees

decay

xH. taking place in or on water U. those aspects of the weather, such as temperature,

xI. large cultivation of the land rainfall, and light that influence the life of organisms

xJ. shedding its leaves annually V. all the organisms present in a particular area, together

xK. condensation of water vapor, such as rain with their physical environment

or snow

xL. wide grass -covered area with few trees W. openings in the earth found at the ocean’s bottom

M. (of climate) without extremes of heat and X. distance of a place from the equator, measured in

cold degrees

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS #6

Directions: Following are questions to help you further understand the concepts presented in the program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES. You may refer to your notes from your Interactivity Worksheets.

1. In what biome do you think you live?

Deciduous forest

2. What type of climate do you experience?

tmeperate

3. How close to the equator do you live?

Moderately close

4. What are the types of plant and animal populations that live in your biome?

Deciduous trees

Deer

Fox

Squirrels

racoons

5. Which biomes have you visited: tropical rain forest, desert, temperate deciduous forest,

grasslands, chaparral, temperate rain forest, coniferous forest, tundra, lake or pond, coastal waters, deep ocean, coral reef?

Coastal waters, deciduous forest, grasslands

6. Which biomes would you like to visit and why?

Temperate rain forest because it would be cool to see the wide variety of animals.

7. How do the climatic factors such as temperature, rainfall, and light affect the plant and

animal life of a biome?

Climatic factors affect animal and plant life because some plants and animals cannot handle the conditions, in addition to the ability of the plant or animal to adapt.

8. How does soil composition affect the number and types of organisms an environment can support?

Soil composition affects the number and diversity of organisms in an environment by providing or not providing the needed amount of minerals

9. Give an example from any biome how two types of organisms may interact with each other in the following ways: plant/plant eater, predator/prey.

Plant may get eaten by the plant eater

The prey may camouflage itself to protect itself from predators

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES

VIDEO QUIZ #7

Short Answer

Directions: Answer the following questions in the spaces provided. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.

1. Geographical areas filled with a major community of plants and animals are known as

what?

biomes

2. What type of trees must lose their leaves in autumn so to prevent water loss during the

frozen winters?

decidous

3. Name the biome that has nutrient-rich soil and is most often used for agriculture. It is

often identified as the “breadbaskets of the world.”

grasslands

4. What type of trees are able to keep their leaves all year and survive cold, snowy winters?

Coniferous

5. Why are there no trees in the tundra?

Because of the poor soil

6. Where does less than one hundredth of one percent of the earth’s fresh water exist?

Lakes, rivers, and ponds

7. Name two of the five types of ocean biomes presented in the program.

Coral reefs, and the near shore zone

True or False

Directions: Label each statement with “T” if it is true or “F” if it is false.

__F___ 8. In some parts of the world, the chaparral biome is best represented by

evergreen shrubs that are able to survive the destructive forces of floods.

____F_ 9. Reptiles, mammals, and a huge variety of insects compete fiercely in the rain

forest for nutrients.

__T___ 10. To survive the hot day time periods in the desert, some animals burrow in the

cool ground.

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES

POST-TEST #8A

True or False

Directions: Label each statement with “T” if it is true or “F” if it is false.

_____T___ 1. All populations living together and the physical factors with which they

interact compose an ecosystem.

_____F___ 2. Reptiles, mammals, and a huge variety of insects compete fiercely in the

rain forest for nutrients.

_____T___ 3. To survive the hot day time periods in the desert, some animals burrow in

the cool ground.

______F__ 4. In some parts of the world, the chaparral biome is best represented by

evergreen shrubs that are able to survive the destructive forces of floods.

_____F__ 5. All the plants and animals that live in the ocean’s coastal waters biome

also live in the open ocean biome.

Short Answer

Directions: Answer the following questions in the spaces provided. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.

6. Geographical areas filled with a major community of plants and animals are known as

what?

biomes

7. What type of trees must loose their leaves in autumn so to prevent water loss during the frozen winters?

decidous

8. Name the biome that has nutrient-rich soil and is most often used for agriculture. It is often identified as the “breadbaskets of the world.”

grasslands

9. What type of trees are able to keep their leaves all year and survive cold, snowy winters?

coniferous

10. Why are there no trees in the tundra?

Because of the poor soil

Name: ____________________________ #: _____

BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES

POST-TEST #8B

11. Where does less than one hundredth of one percent of the earth’s fresh water exist?

12. Name two of the five types of ocean biomes presented in the program.

13. For most of the year, what type of precipitation is found in the alpine tundra?

Essay

Directions: Use the spaces provided to answer the following questions. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.

14. How do the climatic factors such as temperature, rainfall, and light affect the plant and animal life of a biome?

15. How does soil composition affect the number and types of organisms an environment can support?

16. Give an example, from any biome, of how two types of organisms may interact with each other in the following ways:

A. plant/plant eater

B. predator/prey

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