Name _________________________
Name _____________
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Biome ________________________________
Your assignment is to take what we have learned the past few days and apply it to a specific biome. You can
work alone or with one other person, not in threes. If you work alone, you are responsible for all of the pages,
if you work with a partner, you are responsible for your partners work, both of you will receive the same
grade, so you need to check each other’s work, so choose wisely.
You will be creating a travel magazine about your biome for people interested in going on educational tours of
different biomes. You can make your magazine in a variety of ways, using publisher, power point, or word.
You will also include several articles that are detailed below. When you turn it in, it should not be a bunch of
pages thrown together, it should “flow.”
Parts or “articles” for the project:
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Cover and article “about the cover”
Biotic and Abiotic
Organization
Cycles
Food Webs/Trophic Pyramids
Biodiversity—Adaptations
Endangered Species
Species Relationships
If you are working with a partner, you may want to divide these up among the two of you.
Once you decide who is doing what but you will all receive the same grade, so make sure you
are ok with the quality of work from your partner.
Feel free to add pictures and cool weblinks for people to go to and describe what you found.
Cover and “About the Cover Article”
Research what the biome looks like; what are the typical plants and animals, temperature,
latitude, weather patterns, where it is found, and what does it look like, etc. It is your
responsibility to be sure you DO NOT plagiarize. Include pictures graphs, etc to help bring your
biome to life in your “about the cover article.” The cover should show others what your biome
is like.
Biotic and Abiotic Article
This article will consist of two lists. One list of 10-15 biotic factors found in your biome, and one
list of abiotic factors 7-10 found in your biome. Include at least 6 pictures in your lists,
especially pictures of factors the average person is not familiar with. Provide a definition for
both biotic factors and abiotic factors, you could even explain the difference.
Organization article
Your job is to find examples for organisms that live in this biome, list about 5. Then try to find
the population for these organisms in your biome. Sometimes this is hard to find, so try a
different organism. Animals work better than plants, and endangered/threatened species
usually have populations that are easier to find
Next find an example of a community in your biome and describe it and what makes it a
community
Finally find an example of an ecosystem within your biome. These could be descriptions or
pictures; that is up to you. If you cannot find specific example the important thing is that you
show you understand what these words mean.
One way to complete this article would be to show this concept using arrows. Similar to the
circles I showed you.
Cycles article
Put an example of the carbon cycle on your page. You can create this in power point, paint or word.
DO NOT steal one from the internet. Then choose either the Nitrogen or Phosphorus cycle and create
one showing the steps of the cycle in your specific biome. Be sure to choose specific plants and animals
that would be present in your biome, do not copy and paste this, but create your own.
Food Webs and Trophic pyramids article
Explain what a food web is and what they show. Then place a picture of a food web in this article. You
may not simply copy and paste work from someone else you need to make your own. Search for
animals that are found in your biome and then make them into your own food web. You can make the
food web in word, paint or power point. The food web should have at least 10 organisms in it. Next
make 2 trophic pyramids that would be present in your biome. Each needs to be at least 3 levels high.
You will need to find the animals that make up the pyramid, and then find the mass needed to support
each level as you travel up. (Remember and explain the 10% rule).
Biodiversity and Adaptations Article
Your job is to talk about the biodiversity of the biome. Does it have a high biodiversity or low
biodiversity and explain what is happening to the biodiversity. (increasing or decreasing). Also
give a quick background of what biodiversity is. Then find species adaptations in your biome.
Find one example of a behavioral, structural, and physiological adaptation and put it in your
biome. Then find one combination, be sure this organism is present in your biome. You can
use the same organism or different organisms.
Species Relationship Article
Find examples of each of the relationships below. They must be present in your biome!
Predator Prey
Competition
Commensalism
Mutualism
Parasitism
Populations Article
Find a few limiting factors that exist in your biome, for example, what are some things you
biome has a low amount of. These would be the things that are lacking, and stopping your
organism from growing too large
Find one or two endangered species in your biome and briefly describe them here. (Name, why
they are becoming extinct, and anything interesting about them)
Find an r-selected and k-selected example that live in your biome, explain why they fit this role
Find species that have the three types of survivorship in your biome (survivorship curves) and
describe why they exhibit this type of survivorship.