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Pre – Video Quiz: True or False
Directions: Label each statement with a “T” if it is true or “F” if it is false.
___T_1. The word “biome” is a name to define an area that has a major community of plants
and animals.
__F__2. Climate has nothing to do with where plants and animals live.
__F__3. All the plants and animals that live in the ocean’s coastal waters biome also live in the deep ocean
biome.
Short Answer:
Answer the following in the spaces provided. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.
4. What type of trees annually lose their leaves?
Deciduous trees
5. Name two fresh water environments.
River
lake
6. What is the dominant plant life found in the tropical rain forest and the temperate rain
forest?
trees
7. What is the name of the biome which has a geographical area that receives little rainfall and whose terrain is
often dominated by rocks, sand, and overall poor soil?
desert
8. Many of the grasslands today are used for what purpose?
farming
9. What is another name for the temperate shrublands whose plants are able to survive the
destructive forces of fire?
Temperate rainforest
10. The frozen subsoil of the tundra biome often prevents the existence of what type of plant life?
grass
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INTERACTIVITY WORKSHEET
TERRESTRIAL BIOMES #2
A.
Directions: Review the categories listed below. While viewing the program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S
MAJOR LIFE ZONES, record the information presented next to the proper category listed on this
worksheet.
1. Biome’s name: tundra
2. Origin of name: russian
3. Characteristic landscape: treeless plains that is very cold
4. Climate: exteremly cold and dry
5. Soil conditions: little or none
6. Dominant plant life: grass
7. Dominant animal life: birds and caribou
8. Main feature: south of arctic circle, cold, dry
B. Using the above information and the visuals presented in BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE
ZONES, draw a typical landscape of the above biome. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.
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INTERACTIVITY WORKSHEET AQUATIC BIOMES #3
Fresh Water
Directions: Review the categories listed below. While viewing the program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S
MAJOR LIFE ZONES, record the information presented next to the proper category listed on this
worksheet.
A. Locations of fresh water
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
B. Standing water: Fed with mineral and nutrient-poor content water
1. Description of water:
2. Oxygen content:
3. Description of algae growth:
4. Animal life:
C. Standing water: Fed with large quantities of sediments and high concentrations of nutrients.
1. Description of water:
2. Oxygen content:
3. Description of algae growth:
4. Animal life:
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INTERACTIVITY WORKSHEET AQUATIC BIOMES #4
Marine
Directions: Review the categories listed below. While viewing the program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S
MAJOR LIFE ZONES, record the information presented next to the proper category listed on this
worksheet.
1. Name of biome:
2. Location:
3. Plant life:
4. Animal life:
5. Important characteristics:
1. Name of biome:
2. Location:
3. Plant life:
4. Animal life:
5. Important characteristics:
1. Name of biome:
2. Location:
3. Plant life:
4.Animal life:
5. Important characteristics:
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VOCABULARY WORKSHEET #5
Directions: Match the letter of the definition with its term by putting the letter in the blank.
_G____ 1. decomposition
___D__ 2. agriculture
___N__ 3. tropics
_____ 4. alpine
__S___ 5. tundra
__O___ 6. algae
___E__ 7. biomes
___J__ 8. deciduous
__M___ 9. temperate
____L_ 10. grassland
__X___ 11. latitude
___Q__ 12. conifers
___C__ 13. predator
____I_ 14. terrestrial
___H__ 15. aquatic
___K__ 16. precipitation
___T__ 17. savanna
___W__ 18. vents
__P___ 19. transpiration
___B__ 20. nutrient
___F__ 21. ecosystem
___A__ 22. desert
____V_ 23. community
__U___ 24. climate
xA. barren, often sandy, area
N. line of latitude 23 degrees north or south of the equator
xB. any chemical that an organism must take
O. marine or fresh water plants with no true stems or leaves
from its environment in order to survive
xC. animal that preys on another organism
P. loss of water by evaporation through the plant’s pores
D. of, or living on, land
Q. of cone-bearing trees, such as pines and their relatives
xE. geographical areas filled with a major
R. of high mountains
community of plant and animal life
xF. all the organisms living in a particular area S. a treeless geographic area where the subsoil is frozen
xG. the process by which organisms cause
T. grassy flat land in hot regions with few trees
decay
xH. taking place in or on water
U. those aspects of the weather, such as temperature,
xI. large cultivation of the land
rainfall, and light that influence the life of organisms
xJ. shedding its leaves annually
V. all the organisms present in a particular area, together
xK. condensation of water vapor, such as rain
with their physical environment
or snow
xL. wide grass -covered area with few trees
W. openings in the earth found at the ocean’s bottom
M. (of climate) without extremes of heat and X. distance of a place from the equator, measured in
cold
degrees
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS #6
Directions: Following are questions to help you further understand the concepts presented in the
program BIOMES: OUR EARTH’S MAJOR LIFE ZONES. You may refer to your notes from your
Interactivity Worksheets.
1. In what biome do you think you live?
Deciduous forest
2. What type of climate do you experience?
tmeperate
3. How close to the equator do you live?
Moderately close
4. What are the types of plant and animal populations that live in your biome?
Deciduous trees
Deer
Fox
Squirrels
racoons
5. Which biomes have you visited: tropical rain forest, desert, temperate deciduous forest,
grasslands, chaparral, temperate rain forest, coniferous forest, tundra, lake or pond, coastal waters, deep ocean,
coral reef?
Coastal waters, deciduous forest, grasslands
6. Which biomes would you like to visit and why?
Temperate rain forest because it would be cool to see the wide variety of animals.
7. How do the climatic factors such as temperature, rainfall, and light affect the plant and
animal life of a biome?
Climatic factors affect animal and plant life because some plants and animals cannot handle the conditions, in
addition to the ability of the plant or animal to adapt.
8. How does soil composition affect the number and types of organisms an environment can support?
Soil composition affects the number and diversity of organisms in an environment by providing or not
providing the needed amount of minerals
9. Give an example from any biome how two types of organisms may interact with each other in the following
ways: plant/plant eater, predator/prey.
Plant may get eaten by the plant eater
The prey may camouflage itself to protect itself from predators
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VIDEO QUIZ #7
Short Answer
Directions: Answer the following questions in the spaces provided. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.
1. Geographical areas filled with a major community of plants and animals are known as
what?
biomes
2. What type of trees must lose their leaves in autumn so to prevent water loss during the
frozen winters?
decidous
3. Name the biome that has nutrient-rich soil and is most often used for agriculture. It is
often identified as the “breadbaskets of the world.”
grasslands
4. What type of trees are able to keep their leaves all year and survive cold, snowy winters?
Coniferous
5. Why are there no trees in the tundra?
Because of the poor soil
6. Where does less than one hundredth of one percent of the earth’s fresh water exist?
Lakes, rivers, and ponds
7. Name two of the five types of ocean biomes presented in the program.
Coral reefs, and the near shore zone
True or False
Directions: Label each statement with “T” if it is true or “F” if it is false.
__F___ 8. In some parts of the world, the chaparral biome is best represented by
evergreen shrubs that are able to survive the destructive forces of floods.
____F_ 9. Reptiles, mammals, and a huge variety of insects compete fiercely in the rain
forest for nutrients.
__T___ 10. To survive the hot day time periods in the desert, some animals burrow in the
cool ground.
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POST-TEST #8A
True or False
Directions: Label each statement with “T” if it is true or “F” if it is false.
_____T___ 1. All populations living together and the physical factors with which they
interact compose an ecosystem.
_____F___ 2. Reptiles, mammals, and a huge variety of insects compete fiercely in the
rain forest for nutrients.
_____T___ 3. To survive the hot day time periods in the desert, some animals burrow in
the cool ground.
______F__ 4. In some parts of the world, the chaparral biome is best represented by
evergreen shrubs that are able to survive the destructive forces of floods.
_____F__ 5. All the plants and animals that live in the ocean’s coastal waters biome
also live in the open ocean biome.
Short Answer
Directions: Answer the following questions in the spaces provided. Use the back of the sheet if necessary.
6. Geographical areas filled with a major community of plants and animals are known as
what?
biomes
7. What type of trees must loose their leaves in autumn so to prevent water loss during the frozen winters?
decidous
8. Name the biome that has nutrient-rich soil and is most often used for agriculture. It is often identified as the
“breadbaskets of the world.”
grasslands
9. What type of trees are able to keep their leaves all year and survive cold, snowy winters?
coniferous
10. Why are there no trees in the tundra?
Because of the poor soil
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POST-TEST #8B
11. Where does less than one hundredth of one percent of the earth’s fresh water exist?
12. Name two of the five types of ocean biomes presented in the program.
13. For most of the year, what type of precipitation is found in the alpine tundra?
Essay
Directions: Use the spaces provided to answer the following questions. Use the back of the sheet if
necessary.
14. How do the climatic factors such as temperature, rainfall, and light affect the plant and animal life of a
biome?
15. How does soil composition affect the number and types of organisms an environment can support?
16. Give an example, from any biome, of how two types of organisms may interact with each other in the
following ways:
A. plant/plant eater
B. predator/prey