Biomes - The Living Landscapes of Earth:

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.What are terrestrial biomes?  What abiotic factors are used to characterize terrestrial biomes?

2.What role does vegetation type play in characterizing each type of terrestrial biome?

Taiga - Biomes

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.What are some other names that the Taiga biome goes by?

2.Describe the primary type of vegetation that is found in this biome?  What types of animals and soils does it have?

3.Describe the temperatures and precipitation patterns found in the Taiga?

Protecting the Boreal

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.What are some important reasons to protect the boreal (taiga) biome?

2.What connection does the boreal forest have with songbirds?

3.What are the major threats to the boreal (taiga) biome?

Temperate Rainforest of Kenai Fjords National Park

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.Where is the Kenai Fjords National Park?  What is this temperate rainforest  part of?

2.What conditions create this temperate rainforest?

3.What are nurse logs and why are they important?

4.How do salmon "feed" the trees of this temperate rainforest?

Temperate Forests - Biomes

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.What has really impacted the trees of the temperate forest biome?  Explain what has happened and why.

2.What is lignin?  What is its function in trees? 

3.Describe the primary type of vegetation that is found in this biome?  What types of animals and soils does it have?

4.Describe the temperatures and precipitation patterns found in this biome?

Tropical Forest - Biomes

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.Describe the temperatures and precipitation patterns found in this biome.  What causes these patterns?  Where do we find the tropical forests?

2.Describe the primary types of vegetation that is found in this biome?  What types of animals and soils does it have?  What nutrient levels are present in tropical forest soils?

3.Discuss some important aspects of the canopy.  What role do lianas play?

4.Describe the general biodiversity of the tropical forest.

5.Explain the biggest threats to the tropical forests.

Shrubland - Biomes

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.Briefly compare the characteristics of shrubs compared with trees.

2.Describe the temperatures and precipitation patterns found in this biome.  What causes these patterns?  Where do we find shrublands in the U.S.?  What are some other regions on Earth with shrublands

3.What happens during severe dry seasons in this biome?   What is the name we give shrublands in the U.S.?

Grasslands - Biomes

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1. Where does this biome typically occur on Earth?

2. What grasslands are called prairie and where does the term come from?

3. What do you think causes the differences between tall and short grass prairies in the U.S.?

4. What animals have thrived in this biome?

5. Why has much of this biome been converted from grassland into agricultural land?

Savannah - Biomes

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1. What are some of the major places where we can find this biome on Earth?

2. What type of vegetation is found in this biome?  What types of animals can be found here?

3. What are temperatures and precipitation like in this biome throughout the year?

4. What is thought to have developed much of this biome over thousands of years?

5. Where in this biome do we find acacia and baobab trees?

6. What is the major claim to fame of this biome?

Deserts - Biomes

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1. What are temperatures and precipitation do we find in this biome?

2. Why does vegetation look so different in this biome?  Describe some of the adaptations plants have for survival in this harsh landscape.

3. What types of animals live in this biome?  How are they adapted to conditions here?

4. Where do we typically find deserts on Earth's surface?  Why?

Tundra - Secrets of World Climate

After watching this video can you answer the following questions?

1.Where is tundra located?  What are its characteristics?  Describe the plants present here.  Why are no trees present?

2.What are temperatures and precipitation like in this hostile biome?

3.What adaptations do animals have for survival here.

4.What threats exist to this biome?