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Study Questions – Terrestrial Biomes (Ch.4-3 Dragonfly book, Ch.17-3 Manatee book)
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What do weather and climate have in common?
What is the difference between weather and climate?
What is latitude? Longitude?
Why does longitude not affect climate?
Why does latitude affect temperature?
What are the most important factors that determine where biomes occur?
Why is it hotter on the equator than at the poles?
What will happen if humans continue to release more carbon dioxide into the
atmosphere?
9. What is the difference between a biome and an ecosystem?
10. What is the difference between deciduous and coniferous trees?
11. List all the factors contained in your notes that effect climate on earth.
12. What are the three major climate zones on earth?
13. Within the climate zones, does rain increase or decrease as you move away from the
tropics?
14. How are biodiversity, moisture (rain) and temperature related?
15. Which biome(s) is (are) the driest on earth?
16. Which two biomes are the wettest on earth?
17. What is the average high temperature in the summer in the tundra? In temperate
forests?
Study Questions - Aquatic Biomes (Ch.4-4 Dragonfly book, Ch.17-3 Manatee book)
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What is the difference between phytoplankton and zooplankton?
What are the three types of freshwater ecosystems?
Why may there be limited species diversity in standing-water ecosystems?
How are flowing-water ecosystems different at the source and further downstream?
What is sediment and where in a river can it be found?
What is a wetland?
What percentage of the earth is covered by freshwater? By saltwater?
Which are the main marine ecosystems (zones)? Where are they located and what are their
main characteristics?
Which marine zones have the least biodiversity?
When looking at a photo of a marine environment, how do you know whether it was taken in
the photic or aphotic zone?
List some of the organisms that can live in the intertidal zone.
Compare plants that grow on land to those that grow in water, in terms of oxygen production.
In which ocean ecosystem are coral reefs found?
What is the difference between the benthic zone and an ocean trench?
Which type of marine environment is the most difficult to live in?