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Chapter 6.1 – 6.2 Guided Reading
NAME: ____________________________
Pd: ____
1/6/15
Part A: Make vocabulary study cards for the following words:
1. biome
2. climate
3. weather
4. climatograph
5. net primary production
6. canopy
7. emergent layer
8. understory
9. epiphyte
10. deciduous
11. estivation
12. coniferous
13. hibernation
14. permafrost
Part B: Answer the following short answer questions as you read pages 164-167.
1. What is similar about the ecosystems that make up a biome?
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2. Which abiotic conditions exert the greatest influence on biome
classification? ___________________________________________
3. How are climatographs helpful in understanding biomes?
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4. What is the relationship between latitude and biomes located across
Earth?
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5. Explain how natural selection is important to biomes and organisms.
6. Why do different biomes have different characteristic organisms?
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7. What can cause variation- for example, species composition- among
plant and animal communities within biomes?
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8. Why are gross primary production and net primary production not the
same value?
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9. What limits the net primary production in aquatic ecosystems such as
lakes and streams?
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Part C: Answer the following short answer questions as you read pages 168-180.
10.
Why does the soil of Antarctica have little organic content?
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11.
Why are polar caps not considered a biome?
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12.
Identify three adaptations found among animals that live in the
polar caps.
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13.
Describe the type of plants you might find as you hike up a
mountain slope with communities ranging from desert to tundra.
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