1. SOIL

2. What is soil:  Soil: is a complex mixture of inorganic minerals, decaying organic matter, water, air, and living organisms

3. How is soil produced?  Produced by a process called weathering, which breaks down rocks via erosion and decomposition

4. Layers of Soil  Topsoil: uppermost layer that consists of twigs, leaves, insects, etc  Subsoil: consists of rock particles and minerals  Weather Rock: made of bits of rock broken (bedrock)

5. How Does Soil Differ?  Differs according to mineral content, pH, organic content, etc.  Differs according to location or biome that it is found in.

6. BIOME

7. What is a biome?  Large geographic area that has a particular climate, native animals and plants, etc  Either terrestrial or aquatic

8. Terrestrial Biomes  Tropical Rain Forest  Grassland (prairies)  Tundra  Savanna  Desert  Coniferous Forest (or Taiga)  Deciduous Biome (our biome)

9. Aquatic Biomes  Freshwater (lakes, ponds, streams, etc)  Marine (oceans)

10. 10% Law  Used to determine how much energy is present in different trophic levels of a food chain

11. Where are the biomes located??  You will be given a blank map of the world and different locations for each biome. Color code each biome to its corresponding location- hand it at the end of the period.