APES Study Guide - Unit 1: THE LIVING WORLD
Chapter 4 – Global Climates and Biomes
Chapter 4
• adiabatic cooling
• adiabatic heating
• albedo
• • biomes
• boreal forests
• chemosynthesis
• • coral reefs
• Coriolis effect
• El Nino- • gyres
• Hadley cells
• intertidal zone
• intertropical convergence zone
• mangrove swamps
• permafrost
• phytoplankton
• rain shadow
• salt marshes
• savannas
• stratosphere
• subtropical deserts
• temperate grassland/cold desert
• temperate rainforests
• temperate seasonal forests
• thermohaline circulation
• tropical rainforests
• troposphere
• tundra
• upwelling
• woodland/shrubland
• climate
Study Guide Questions (SGQ):
Chapter 4
1. Describe the forces that drive global circulation patterns and how those patterns determine weather and
climate
2. Describe major terrestrial biomes
3. Describe major aquatic biomes
4. What effect does Earth’s rotation have on atmospheric circulation and ocean currents?
5. In what ways are atmospheric and oceanic circulation patterns similar? How are they different?
6. Describe how differences in climate lead to formation of tropical, temperate, and polar deserts,
grasslands, and forests.
7. Distinguish between weather and climate.
8. Define ocean currents and explain how they, along with global air circulation, support the formation of
forests, grasslands, and deserts.
9. What is the rain shadow effect and how can it lead to the formation of deserts?
10. Describe how climate and vegetation vary with latitude and elevation.
11. Describe how the three major types of deserts differ in their climate and vegetation.
12. Why have many of the world’s wetlands disappeared?
13. What is permafrost?
14. Why is biodiversity so high in tropical rain forests?
15. What important ecological roles do mountains play?
16. Describe how human activities have affected the world’s deserts, grasslands, forests, and mountains.