Name:
Date:
Period:
Mystery Biome Activity
Essential Question: What influences a biome?
Directions: Answer the following questions to the best of your ability. You will have 5 minutes to
complete each station.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Tundra
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Tundra
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Tundra
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Tundra
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Tundra
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Tundra
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Tundra
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Tundra
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Tundra
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Tundra
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Tundra
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Station #
1. What is in the mystery box?
2. What characteristics does this object have?
3. Which biome do you think it is representative of?
Coral Reef
Savannah
Temperate Rainforest
Polar Ice Cap
Tundra
Intertidal Zone
Tropical Rainforest
Cold Desert
Subtropical Desert
Woodlands/Shrublands
Temperate Forest
Boreal/Taiga
4. Explain why you chose this biome. What characteristics does it have in common with the object?
5. On the map shade in where you think this biome is in the world using the color provided at the
table.
Warm Up: Answer each multiple choice question to the best of your ability.
The following choices are for questions 1-4 and refer to plant adaptations found in the biome.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Desert
Tundra
Boreal forest
Temperate forest
Tropical rain forest
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Plants adapted for shallow nutrient poor soil; have buttresses
Plants adapted for lack of water availability in winter; deciduous
Plants adapted to short growing season; have needles to decrease transpiration in cold climate
Plants take in CO2 at night to reduce water loss; have needles; stem photosynthesis
The biome not found in the southern hemisphere is the
a. Desert
b. Taiga
c. Temperate grassland
d. Temperate rainforest
e. Tropical rainforest
Warm Up: Answer each multiple choice question to the best of your ability.
The following choices are for questions 1-4 and refer to plant adaptations found in the biome.
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
Desert
Tundra
Boreal forest
Temperate forest
Tropical rain forest
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Plants adapted for shallow nutrient poor soil; have buttresses
Plants adapted for lack of water availability in winter; deciduous
Plants adapted to short growing season; have needles to decrease transpiration in cold climate
Plants take in CO2 at night to reduce water loss; have needles; stem photosynthesis
The biome not found in the southern hemisphere is the
a. Desert
b. Taiga
c. Temperate grassland
d. Temperate rainforest
e. Tropical rainforest
Name:
1. Two of the most important factors that determine a climate are
a. Latitude and precipitation
b. Temperature and precipitation
c. The animals and plants that live there
d. Latitude and altitude
2. Tropical rain forests
a. Have deep, nutrient-rich soils
b. Have deep, nutrient-poor soils
c. Have shallow, nutrient-rich soils
d. Have shallow, nutrient-poor soils
e. Have a widely distributed soil pattern
3. A cattle egret standing on the back of a cow is an example of
a. Mutualism
b. Parasitism
c. A predator-prey relationship
d. Commensalism
e. Eutrophication
4. What biome would be most affected by a large decrease in precipitation?
a. Desert
b. Tundra
c. Coniferous forest
d. Temperate forest
e. Grassland
5. If you travel south from Canada to Costa Rica, you would pass through several biomes. This
change in biomes is mainly the result of
a. Altitude
b. Human factors
c. Increase in temperature and precipitation
d. Ocean currents
e. succession