Science Investigations: Investigating Ecosystems and
Biomes: Video Questions
1. What makes solar energy an appealing method to power cars?
What are the drawbacks to using this kind of energy?
2. Describe several biomes. How have the inhabitants of these
biomes adapted to survive?
3. Give examples of animals that are both predator and prey.
Describe the animals’ adaptations for survival.
4. What is a predator? How can one species be predator and prey?
What animals make up the food web in Africa’s Serengeti
Plain?
5. What physical attributes make the cheetah a successful
predator? What adaptations do other species have in the
Serengeti?
6. What is an adaptation? Describe ways that some plants and
animals adapt to their environments.
7. What conditions does the meerkat experience in the desert?
How does it adapt to harsh conditions?
8. Describe the geography and climate of five biomes.
9. Where on the globe are desert biomes located? Name animal
species living in desert biomes.
10. What conservation efforts are underway to protect endangered
biomes?
11. What is a biome? Give some examples of biomes.
12. Describe the geography, climate, and inhabitants of a desert
biome.
Science Investigations: Investigating Ecosystems and Biomes:
Video Questions
1. What makes solar energy an appealing method to power cars? What
are the drawbacks to using this kind of energy?
2. Describe several biomes. How have the inhabitants of these biomes
adapted to survive?
3. Give examples of animals that are both predator and prey. Describe
the animals’ adaptations for survival.
4. What is a predator? How can one species be predator and prey?
What animals make up the food web in Africa’s Serengeti Plain?
5. What physical attributes make the cheetah a successful predator?
What adaptations do other species have in the Serengeti?
6. What is an adaptation? Describe ways that some plants and animals
adapt to their environments.
7. What conditions does the meerkat experience in the desert? How
does it adapt to harsh conditions?
8. Describe the geography and climate of five biomes.
9. Where on the globe are desert biomes located? Name animal species
living in desert biomes.
10. What conservation efforts are underway to protect endangered
biomes?
11. What is a biome? Give some examples of biomes.
12. Describe the geography, climate, and inhabitants of a desert biome.