Online Biome Lab Part 2
Purpose: Student will observe and describe how different environments, including microhabitats in
schoolyards and biomes, support different varieties of organisms
Directions: Today you will use the website, http://www.mbgnet.net/index.html, to find out how different ecosystems
support different varieties of life. You will explore 6 ecosystems, answering some about them. This is a lab grade
and is due on Thursday.
Rivers and Streams
1.
From outer space, the earth looks like it is covered in ____________ and ___________, similar to our
bodies.
2.
What organ system are tissues found in the blanks above a part of?
3.
4.
What is a watershed?
What 2 processes go on in a watershed?
5.
Define surface runoff.
6.
7.
8.
Define infiltration.
Give 3 sources of water pollution.
When you _____________, your lungs behave just like a watershed.
9.
What organ system are your lungs a part of?
10. List 3 famous rivers the site talks about.
11. What is the longest river in the world?
12. Hydroelectric power converts ____________ energy to _______ energy.
13. Does the amount of energy decrease or just change forms?
14. What about a river makes it able to support the different
organisms that live inside of it?
Ponds and Lakes
1.
A lake is a large body of
____________ water.
2.
Do ponds go through ecological
succession?
3.
Summarize each step of succession
that occurs in a pond
a.
_________________________
b.
c.
__________________________
d.
_________________________
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
______________________
What is an oxbow lake?
Sketch an oxbow lake to the side.
What process makes oxbow lakes?
What is the definition of that process?
What are the 5 largest lakes in the world?
9.
What are algae?
10. What process do they go through?
11. What about a pond or lake makes it able to support the different organisms that live inside of it?
Wetlands
1.
2.
What is a wetland?
Name 3 different types of
wetlands.
c.
3.
4.
___________________
b.
___________________
_______________________
Why are wetlands important?
Would you consider a flood a catastrophic event? Why or why not?
5.
6.
7.
a.
Wetlands help control ________________.
What is the definition of the word featured in the blank above?
What about a wetland makes it able to support the different organisms that live inside of it?
Shorelines
1.
2.
What is a shoreline?
How many different types of shorelines are there?
3.
What is a barrier island?
4.
In what states would you find barrier islands?
5.
What type of organisms lives in a salt marsh?
6.
Are these organisms’ producers,
consumers, or decomposers?
7.
8.
9.
What controls the tides?
What provides the energy for waves?
Where does the energy from a wave go
once the wave is gone?
10. What about a shoreline makes it able to
support the different organisms that live inside of it?
Temperate Oceans
1.
Oceans cover
¾ of the world’s
surface. Please make a pie graph representing this
information.
2.
How many oceans are there?
3.
What are their names?
a.
______________________
b.
_______________________
c.
________________________
d.
________________________
e.
4.
What’s the difference between an ocean and a sea?
5.
6.
7.
8.
_____________________
What are the 3 largest seas?
What is the world’s largest island?
What is the deepest zone of the ocean?
Using context clues and your knowledge of prefixes and suffixes, what does the word aphotic
mean?
9.
What type of plant grows in ocean forests?
10. For what do we use them?
11. Using the information on the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean page, create a pie graph showing the
amount of seawater in the Atlantic and Pacific.
12. Ocean fishing accounts for 80% of the world fish catch. The other 20% comes from inland fishing
(5%) and aquaculture (15%). Create a pie graph showing this information.
13. What about an ocean makes it able to support the different organisms that live inside of it?