Biomes

LO: We will evaluate characteristics of some major terrestrial biomes.

DOL: Given 5 AP test questions about terrestrial biomes I will accurately answer 4.

We will:

Discuss the Case Study for Chapter 5

Note: You will write a long paper about one case study each six weeks. This one is due September 30th.
Use the following questions to complete the Cornell Notes.

1. What is the relationship between biodiversity and altitude? What are the two most important abiotic factors?

2. In a temperate forest the nutrients are held in the soil. In a tropical rainforest the nutrients are held in the living organisms. How does deforestation impact each of these biomes immediately? After 5 years? After 10 years?

3. What are three similarities and three differences in the climate graphs of grassland and deciduous forest?

4. Coral reefs are made up of colonies of the coral animal and algae that lives within it. What is the relationship between the two organisms? What happens when the ocean temperature rises?

5. What characteristics of the plants that live in a grassland make the grasslands soil so rich and deep? What characteristics of the plants that live in a rainforest make the soil there so poor and shallow?

Use the powerpoint to check your answers