Question and Answer
Image and Biome
Matching
Mutliple Choice
Which factors determine the Earth’s global
climate patterns?
Define: abiotic factors
Wind, nutrients, and sunlight are abiotic
factors.
Parasites, predators and vegetation are
biotic factors.
Soil type, minerals, clay content are biotic
factors.
Which of the following factors increase
the amount of dissolved oxygen in
water?
Low algal growth on the surface of the water.
Spilling over rocks.
Cold temperatures
Photosynthetic organisms
All of these
What causes an algal bloom?
Pollination
Excess nutrients.
Sunlight
Excess carbon dioxide
Excess sunlight.
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Match the biome with the state.
Temperate broadleaf forest
Iowa
Coniferous forest
Napa Valley, CA
Chaparral
Pennsylvania
Desert
Michigan
Temperate grassland
Nevada
In many dense forests, plants living near
the ground level engage in intense
competition for
sunlight
carbon dioxide
water
oxygen
nitrogen
In terms of global air circulation,
the tropics are a region where air
Rises and cools, dropping rain.
Rises and cools, creating an arid belt.
Rises and warms, creating an arid belt.
Descends and warms, dropping rain.
Descends and warms, creating an arid belt.
What is the most abundant vegetation on
the tundra?
What is the predominant wildlife
on the savanna and the prairie?
Terrestrial crustaceans.
Small mammals, fish, amphibians.
Birds, reptiles, small mammals.
Small grazers,
Large grazers.
Disturbances can help maintain a biome.
Name a biome that is maintained by fire.
Prairie fires destroy trees and burn dead
grasses but the roots of the grasses
survive and regrow. This maintains the
grassland biome.
Which of the following is NOT an
aquatic biome?
Freshwater
Benthic
Marine
Estuary
Wetlands
Name the biome.
Aquatic biomes are always affected by the
salinity of the water.
Aquatic biomes are always affected by the
amount of dissolved oxygen in the water.
What is the aquatic zone called in which
light permeates?
Regardless of the depth of the water or
whether it is salt (marine) or fresh
water, the photic zone is always
defined this way.
What is the name for the muddy
bottom of a lake?
Photic zone
Benthic zone
Critical zone
Twilight zone
Plankton zone
What is the name of the zone for the area
of shoreline between high and low tides?
Name the marine biome that has the
greatest productivity overall.
The productivity of the open ocean is very
low as measured by cubic meter, but
because the ocean is so vast, the sum
total of its productivity is the greatest.
Name the aquatic biome that is the most
productive (per cubic meter) but makes up the
smallest of all the aquatic biomes.
Coral reefs require very specific and rare
conditions in which to grow. They are made of
cnidarians that secrete hard shells and support
the growth of other corals, sponges and algae.
Name the aquatic
biome.
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This biome is created where the river
meets the sea.