Biome

Evidence of Work

For this project, we got the opportunity to select a biome and create a fictitious story about how we would survive in the given biome. We had to study many different plants and animals, environmental factors (both biotic and abiotic), limiting factors, and other obstacles.

My story largely surrounded the immediate thought process following a plane crash, remembering content learned in biology. This is largely unrealistic that a high school student would remember such obscure facts about a rainforest, but we were only instructed to not include superhuman survival abilities, not an unusually good memory.

Content

• Biome

  • a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat

    • aquatic, desert, forest, grassland, and tundra.

• Fauna

  • animals

• Flora

  • plants

• Climate

  • long-term average of weather

    • temperature, rainfall, etc

• Biotic factor

  • Living factor

    • animals, plants, insects, fungi, microorganisms

• Abiotic factor

  • Non-living factor

    • water, temperature, topography, light, wind, soil

• Limiting factors

  • Factors that make survival more difficult, limiting a population

    • Sunlight, soil, predation, human activity

• Adaptation

  • The product of evolution that makes life more fit for a given environment

    • Insects are plentiful, so some rainforest plants evolved to be carnivorous

    • Rainforests are very wet, so jaguars evolved to be comfortable in water and swim

Reflection

In such a crazy time during the Covid-19 outbreak, this project was done entirely at home. Therefore, I was self-guided and had to be a Conscientious Learner every step of the way. Also, I had to use critical thinking how to write a survival story yet incorporate nearly everything on my research sheet.

However, this distance learning situation gave no opportunity to demonstrate skills such as Communication nor Collaboration.