APES BIOMES INVESTIGATION
Directions:
1. Complete the chart using your book, review book, websites, etc. For each biome’s environmental problems or vulnerabilities
list 2 solutions or protective measures.
2. Find one thing about your biome that is unique or significant that will help you and the class remember all the rest of the
information about the biome.
3. Put together a PowerPoint presentation to share with the class.
Places to look on the web:
Blue Planet Biomes
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm
Biomes
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B/Biomes.html
Biomes of Earth
http://www.radford.edu/~swoodwar/CLASSES/GEOG235/biomes/intro.html
Earth Floor Biomes
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html
Earth Observatory
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Laboratory/Biome
Missouri Botanical Gardens
http://mbgnet.mobot.org
The World’s Biomes
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/glossary
World Biomes
http://www.worldbiomes.com
General
GROUP
BIOME
Geographic
Locations
Soil Types or
zones water
GRASSLAND
(Steppes, prairies,
chaparrals)
Temperate
Grasslands
Tundra
Savanna
Woodland/Shrub
land
FOREST
Temperate
Deciduous
Forest
Temperate Rain
forest
Taiga
( Boreal)
Tropical
Rain Forest
WATER
Lake/Pond
. Stream/River
Freshwater
Wetland
Estuary
Mangrove
Swamps
Salt
Marshes
Oceans
Desert
Open Ocean
Coral Reefs
Subtropical
Climate Dominant
Rainfall Vegetation
(seasonal
&
changes Adaptations
for water)
Dominant
Consumers
&
Adaptations
Complexity
of food
webs
(# of levels)
Environmental
Problems
/Vulnerabilities
Name(s) ______________________________
Biome _____________________________
Biomes PowerPoint Rubric
Minimum Requirements
A
(4)
9 slides (or at least 2 per
person)
Title Slide and Introductory
Slide
World map clearly showing all
locations of biome
Graph or chart showing
Climate and Rainfall (or
temperatures for water biomes)
and verbal description
Picture and description of Soil
Type (not soil horizon) or
water zone
Pictures and descriptions of
Dominant Vegetation and
biome-specific Adaptations
Pictures and descriptions of
Dominant Consumers and
biome-specific Adaptations
Pictures and descriptions
showing Complexity of Food
Webs and trophic levels
Biome-specific Environmental
Problems and Vulnerabilities
and solution/protection
Unique Characteristic of Biome
B
(3.2)
7 slides (or at least 2 per person
C
(2.8)
5 slides (or at least 1 per
person)
Title Slide or Introductory
Slide
World map showing some
locations of biome
Graph or chart showing
Climate or Rainfall (or
temperatures for water biomes)
or verbal description
Picture or description of Soil
Type (not soil horizon) or
water zone
Pictures and descriptions of
Dominant Vegetation or
biome-specific Adaptations
Pictures and descriptions of
Dominant Consumers or
biome-specific Adaptations
Pictures or descriptions
showing Complexity of Food
Webs or trophic levels
Biome-specific Environmental
Problems or Vulnerabilities
Title Slide and Introductory
Slide
World map showing locations
all of biome
Graph or chart showing
Climate or Rainfall (or
temperatures for water biomes)
and verbal description
Picture or description of Soil
Type (not soil horizon) or
water zone
Pictures or descriptions of
Dominant Vegetation and
biome-specific Adaptations
Pictures or descriptions of
Dominant Consumers and
biome-specific Adaptations
Pictures and descriptions
showing Complexity of Food
Webs or trophic levels
Biome-specific Environmental
Problems or Vulnerabilities
and solution/protection
Unique Characteristic of Biome Unique Characteristic of Biome
D
(2.2)
4 slides
Verbal description of Climate
and Rainfall (or temperatures
for water biomes)
Pictures of Dominant
Vegetation
Pictures of Dominant
Consumers
Unique Characteristic of Biome