Name: ___________________________
Period: _______
Date: _____________________
Biome temperature and precipitation data
Complete the following data table:
Location
Average yearly
precipitation
(sum of the numbers
divided by the amount
of numbers)
Average yearly
temperature
(sum of the numbers
divided by the amount
of numbers)
Biome
Analyze:
1. Describe the climate of each biome.
a. Tundra average yearly precipitation is ___________ and average yearly temperature is
___________.
b. Taiga
c.
Temperate forest
d.
Tropical rain forest
e.
Grassland
f. Desert
2. Which biomes are most similar in climate? Which are most different? Why?
________________________________ and ________________________________ are the most
similar in climate because ________________________________________________________.
________________________________ and ________________________________ are the most
different because _______________________________________________________________.
3. A large percentage of living species on the Earth live in Tropical rain forests of the world. Why
are so many organisms able to inhabit the rain forest biome?
A large variety of organisms is able to inhabit the rain forest biome because ________________
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