Project Format
• Slide background is to be a single pale color—
NO extra designs
• All text must be a single solid dark color
• All titles are in Arial font, bold text, 44 point
• No text smaller than Arial font, bold text, 28
point
• Citation for picture and graphs must on a slide
below the object and are to be Arial 8 point
Project Requirements
1. Geographical locations-(map) and specific
examples where found (2 slides)
2. Monthly averages of Rainfall and
Temperature in climatograph (1 slide)
3. Physical features (1-2 slides)
4. Four types of animals and four types of
plants with pictures and scientific names (2
slides)
5. Biome Food Chain with pictures (1-2 slides)
6. Four interesting/unusual facts (1-2 slides)
7. References (1-2 slides)
References you are to use
• http://library.thinkquest.org/C0113340/text/
biomes/biomes.tundra.animals.adaptation
s.html
• http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html
• http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/table_of_
contents.htm
• http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geo
g101/textbook/climate_systems/outline.ht
ml
How to do APA citation for Web
Pages
List as much of the following information as possible (you sometimes
have to hunt around to find the information; don't be lazy. If there is a
page like http://www.somesite.com/somepage.htm, and
somepage.html doesn't have the information you're looking for,
move up the URL to http://www.somesite.com/):
Author, A. A., & Author, B. B. (Date of publication). Title of document.
Retrieved from http://Web address
Angeli, E., Wagner, J., Lawrick, E., Moore, K., Anderson, M.,
Soderland, L., & Brizee, A. (2010, May 5). How to do APA citations.
Retrieved from http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
NOTE: When an Internet document is more than one Web page,
provide a URL that links to the home page or entry page for the
document. Also, if there isn't a date available for the document use
(n.d.) for no date.
Biome Project Example ppt.
Name
Date
Period
Topical Rain Forest
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm
Topical Rain Forest
Central America in the Amazon river basin.
Africa - Zaire basin, with a small area in
West Africa; also eastern Madagascar.
Indo-Malaysia - west coast of India, Assam,
Southeast Asia,
New Guinea and
Queensland, Australia
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/rainforest.htm
Tundra Biome
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/images/atmosphere/climate/climographs/barrow.jpg
Physical features
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PH of soil and soil quality
Terrain features (mountains, rivers, lakes)
Humidity
Elevation
Controlling features
etc.
Common Name(s): Silky
Phacelia, Purple Fringe
Genus: Phacelia
Species: sericea
http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/alpine_plant_page.htm
Plant and Animal Slides
use the format above to make:
Two slide with 2 plants each
Two slides with 2 animals each
Biome Food Chain
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/desert/index.htm
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/desert/index.htm
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/desert/index.htm
4 Interesting/Unusual Facts
• Your choice what goes here
References
Ritter, Michael E. (2006). The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical
Geography. Retrieved 5-Oct-10 from
http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/title_page.html
Missouri Botanical Garden. (2002). Grasslands. Retrieved 7-Oct-10 from
http://www.mbgnet.net/sets/grasslnd/index.htm