1. Questions by: R. Neill Power Point by: K. Pease
5th 6 Weeks Review 2012
Questions by: R. Neill
Power Point by: K. Pease

2. Temperature Precipitation
1. What two factors determine a biome’s characteristics of plants and animals?
Temperature
Precipitation

3. 2. What biome is typically hot and dry with lizards and cactus
desert

4. 3. What biome is has little rainfall, permafrost, with little plants and polar bears?
tundra

5. 4. What do your and answers to #2 and #3 have in common?
dry

6. 5. What biome is cold with elk and lichens and is also referred to as the boreal forest?
tiaga

7. 6. Name at least FOUR characteristics of the temperate forest:
cm precipitation
evergreen and deciduous trees
squirrels, birds, rabbits, snakes

8. tropical rainforest’s trees form a canopy
7. How are the temperate forest and the tropical rainforest’s biotic factors different?
tropical rainforest’s trees form a canopy

9. 8. What is the factor that separates marine from freshwater biomes?
salt

10. 9. Describe an adaptation of plants in a desert biome
store water

11. 10. Describe an adaptation of animals in the tundra
thick fur usually colored white

12. 11. Which biome has the most biodiversity?
tropical rainforest

13. Producer Herbivore Carnivore decomposer
12. What four niches must be present in any biome for the circle of life to continue?
Producer
Herbivore
Carnivore
decomposer

14. 13. What type of biome is our schoolyard?
temperate forest

15. 14. Describe the following to justify your answer in #13:
A) Temperature C
B) Precipitation cm precipitation
C) Plants- evergreen and deciduous trees
D) Animals- squirrels, birds, rabbits, snakes

16. Use the diagram above for questions # 15-18:

17. 15. Which biome is the coldest?
tundra

18. 16. Which biome is a little warmer than the boreal forest?
grassland

19. 17. Which biome is drier- a forest or a savanna?

20. temperate forest, grassland and desert
18. Which biomes are warmer than the taiga but cooler than the rainforest?
temperate forest, grassland and desert

21. 19. What behavioral adaptation do honeybees do to help out other bees to find food?
dance

22. 20. Why do animals instinctively migrate?
find more food and warmer climate

23. 21. Why must some animals hibernate?
too cold to find food so sleep away in a shelter

24. 22. Why are bird’s beaks different shapes and sizes?
pick up food

25. 23. What is the type of adaptation that involves certain body coverings, wings, bones, horns, etc?
external structural

26. 24. What internal structural adaptation allows birds to fly?
hollow bones

27. 25. What adaptation does an owl have in order to eat small rodents?
regurgitate pellets

28. 26. What internal structural adaptation allows fish to breathe oxygen in water?
gills

29. 27. What internal structural adaptation of plants transports water up from its roots to its leaves?
xylem

30. 28. What internal structural adaptation of plants allows it to transport sugars produced during photosynthesis in the leaves to the rest of the plant?
phloem

31. 29. What do the arrows represent in this food chain?
flow of energy

32. 30. Identify the following from the diagram:
Producer = Eel grass
Herbivore = Caddis Fly
Carnivore = Sunfish , Bass
Decomposer = none

33. 31. Which organism is always on the bottom of an energy food pyramid?
producers/ plants

34. 32. What percentage of energy transfers to the level above in an energy food pyramid?
10%

35. 33. According to this reading, what niche does a spoonbill have in a marsh?
Spoonbills are wading birds with long, flat, spoon-shaped bills. They find food by scooping up water in shallow areas and straining the mud and water through “gutters” on either side of their bill. Then they eat the small fish, frogs, and plants that are left trapped in their mouth.
omnivore

36. 34. According to the reading, what is one external structural adaptation of a spoonbill bird?
bills

37. carnivore/ omnivore, human
35. In this food web, which of the following organism could fill in the letter X?
carnivore/ omnivore, human

38. 36. What four cycles of matter occur in our ecosystems:
Water
carbon- oxygen
Nitrogen
phosphorus

39. 37. What can the energy produced in biomass decomposition be used for?
fuels for cars/ fertilizer

40. 38. Is biomass energy renewable or nonrenewable?

41. 39. Identify three practices that support the conservation of our natural resources
reduce fuels by biking or carpooling
reuse canvas grocery bags
recycle plastic, glass and paper

42. 40. What scientific tool can be used to examine organisms and their structures for identification?
dichotomous key

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