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Science 10
Chapter 1 Review - Biomes and Ecosystems
1.
What is the difference between a biosphere, a biome, and an ecosystem.
2.
What is the difference between biotic and abiotic?
3.
Name three abiotic factors that influence the distribution of biomes
4.
Which two factors are the most important for determining a region’s climate?
5.
What is the difference between “low latitude” and “low altitude”?
6.
What biomes are found in Canada? List a representative plant and animal for each one.
7.
Identify the biomes below
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d)
e)
8.
In the climatograph at right, explain what the x-axis shows,
and what the two y-axes (right and left) show. Describe the
rainfall pattern over the year. What biome does this
climatograph describe?
9.
Explain why the temperate rainforest biome is usually found
along the coasts of continents.
10. Explain why there are few trees in the grassland biome.
11. What effect does elevation have on the characteristics of a biome?
12. Describe the biome for the climatograph at right
13. Explain the term “adaptation.”
14. What is the difference between a structural adaptation and a behavioural adaptation.
15. Why do you think biomes are often classified according to their plant species rather than by the
animals that live in the biomes?
16. What is the difference between a habitat and a niche?
17. What is an “ecological hierarchy?”
18. What is the difference between a species, a population and a community?
19. Explain the difference between symbiosis and mutualism.
20. How is parasitism different from predation?
21. List three adaptations of prey animals.
22. Explain how competition can affect the health of an organism and its ability to reproduce.
23. Explain how organisms with different niches can live in the same area, yet avoid competition
24. Describe how is the size of a prey population and the size of the predator population go through
cycles